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Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Brooke County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the senate and house of delegates of the commonwealth of Virginia; in general assembly met: The memorial and remonstrance of the undersigned, citizens of county of Brooke, beg leave to the state, that a petition is now in circulation in the upper end of the county, praying that a new county may be established by a division of the present county of Brooke...etc... we protest and are opposed to any division of the...

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Place of Publication: Lewis County

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Brooke County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA. Whereas, public notice has been given, that a memorial will be presented to your honorable body, at the ensuing session, praying a "repeal of the act of last session, entitled "An Act More Effectually To Enable The County Court of Brooke Co. To Provide For Making and Repairing Roads and Bridges,"... A reasonable time to test the new measure had not yet elapsed... They are in...

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Place of Publication: Clarksburg, Virginia
Index Card Notes: Winchester and Parkersburg Motel, Clarksburg Virginia,... By M. Taylor. Clarksburg, Crihfield, Printer. /1839/
Signed: J. Sommerville. Dated:: June 17, 1839
Notice that Mr. M. Taylor has taken over the establishment.
Temp. display in case in WVR.
Transfer Monon. Co. Ct. Rec. Env. 442
1959 Sep 14

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Sistersville, Tyler County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of Virginia: Your memorialists, residents of the North-Western portion of the commonwealth, are informed, that it is the intention of the B&O Rail Road Co., to renew their application to your body for permission to construct their road through that section, to the Ohio River... Tyler County is fertile though hilly and abounds in minerals, but needs facilities to convey its...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Greenbrier County Index Card Notes: Petition. To the general assembly of VA. We citizens of Greenbrier County, feeling ourselves aggrieved, respectfully ask of you their proper tribunal, a redress. We are a mountainous county and have no easy and cheap transportation for our produce to market by land, railroad or water... But when the products we must have are increased by taxation, we complain... your petitioners respectfully ask the legislature of VA. for the...

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

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Place of Publication: Wheeling, Ohio County
Index Card Notes: B54
Fulton Mill. A. Armstrong & Co. Wheeling, VA. [1840?]
Woodout in rules 5 1/2 x 7 in., showing mill, outbuildings, Conestoga wagon, a stage, and adjacent landscape.
Transfer from Ohio county court records, January 1935, env. 152.
1955 Jun 9
Armstrong, A. & Co.
Mills: Fulton
Wheeling: Mills
Wagons and stages (illus.)
Dates: 1840-1849

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Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of the commonwealth of VA. The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of Wheeling and Ohio county, respectfully represents: That there is in this commonwealth no permanent and efficient system of common schools...etc.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Harrison County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of VA. Your memorialists, citizens of Harrison County, respectfully represent that the existing laws respecting the collection of taxes, and the disbursement of monies for county purposes, open a wide door to fraud and extortion on one hand, and to improvident and injudicious expenditure on the other; and that an amendment should be made as to place public opinion more effectually as a check on the officers...