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Contains 574 Results:
Hampshire County Petition, 1853 February 12
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Hampshire County
Index Card Notes: Memorial to t he legislature: to the honorable senate and house of delegates of Va.: the memorial of the undersigned citizens of Clarke, Warren, Frederick, and Hampshire Counties, respectfully represents: that the petitioners inhabit a section eminently fitted by formation and rich production for a railroad at the Forks of the Shenandoah River and from there by way ofn. To Stephensburg and Romney, to Piedmont or Paddytown, in...
Dates:
1853 February 12
Upshur County Petition, 1853 February 26
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Upshur County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The undersigned, citizens of Upshur county respectfully petition your honorable body, during the present session, to effect the modifications of the license system, herein set forth, believing as we do that the present law is defective, in that, the county and corporation courts, are so invested with discretionary power, as to be able to license in opposition to the will of a majority of the...
Dates:
1853 February 26
Gilmer County Petition, Railroad, 1847 February 05
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Gilmer County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the General Assembly of Virginia: the undersigned citizens of the county of Gilmer request that a company be incorporated to construct a railroad from the Potomac to the Ohio River, in pursuance of the preamble and resolutions of the Railroad convention held at Weston, the 25th of September, 1846.
[1847 Feby 5- Gilmer County Petition]
Xerox Copy
Purchase. Va. State...
Dates:
1847 February 05
Diploma awarded by Belmont County Ohio Agricultural Society, 1853 October
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Belmont County, OH
Index Card Notes: 1853 Diploma awarded by Belmont County (OH) Agricultural Society for Best Specimen of Job & Fancy Printing at the 5th Annual St. Clairsville Fair, Oct. 4,5,6, 1853. Source unknown 1980 Je 5
Dates:
1853 October
Brooke County Petition, 1853 December 13
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The undersigned citizens of Wellsburg, and of Brooke County generally...Are rich in mineral and agricultural products but undeveloped...it is with reason that the undersigned pray for the passage of a bill including therin first a charter for a railroad from the Virginia State line, through Holidays cove to the Ohio River in Brooke County near to or opposite Steubenville in the state of Ohio and...
Dates:
1853 December 13
Circular to State Proxies and Directors, 1854
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Richmond, Virginia
Index Card Notes: Drinkard, W.R. Circular to State Proxies and Directors. /Text begins./ /Richmond, n.d/ Circular letter printed on one side of 4 pages. /Two pages missing./ Signed: W.R. Drinkard, Secretary of the Board of P. Works. Dated/ on verso in mss.: 1854.
Source: J. M. Bennett 1960 Nov
Dates:
1854
Kanawha County Petition, 1848 January 08
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Kanawha County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The Undersigned citizens of Kanawha County Respectfully Represent to your honorable body, that the public convenience and prosperity, as well as their own would be greatly promoted by the erection of a bridge across elk river...etc...The Charleston and Point Pleasant turnpike road crosses Elk River, at the point where the proposed bridge would be erected...etc...the undersigned pray that a joint...
Dates:
1848 January 08
Harrison County Petition, 1854 January 18
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Harrison County
Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia. Your petitioners, voters of the county of Harrison, respectfully represent--that they feel themselves, and people of Va. Greatly injured by the traffic in liquor and spirits...your petitioners therefore pray your honorable body to enact a law, prohibiting within the commonwealth, the sale or barter of any intoxicating liquor...and with a further provision, that the law shall not take effect until it...
Dates:
1854 January 18
Hancock County Petition, 1848 December 29
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Hancock County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable legislature of Virginia: The undersigned citizens of Hancock County, most respectfully represent that after an act of creating Hancock out of the Northern part of Brooke the dispute is over the location of the county seat...etc....We the undersigned say that New Manchester is better than Holiday's cove...etc...we pray your honorable body to pass a law confirming and permanently fixing the seat of justice for this...
Dates:
1848 December 29
Portrait of L.A. Godey, Circa 1849
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Unknown
Index Card Notes: Broadsides Portrait of L.A. Godey, to be published in the February No. of the Lady's Book [1849?] 3 Cols. Tells of the beginning of Godey's "Lady's Book." Source: Unknown 1964 Nov 19
Dates:
Circa 1849