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Hampshire County Petition, 1837 January 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
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Place of Publication: Hampshire County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the legislature of VA.: the undersigned citizens of Hampshire Co., respectfully represent that a road is greatly wanted form the town of Romney, in the Co. of Hampshire, to intersect the road from Wheeling to Baltimore, at or near the town of Cumberland, MD., a distance of less than 27 miles, and that a complete said road, and erect the necessary bridges over the water courses. Xerox Copy.
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Dates:
1837 January 16
Public Sale of Joel Ward's residence, 1837 February 20
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
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Place of Publication: Martinsburg, Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: Signed: Chas. Jas. Faulkner, Alfred Ross, Administrators with the will annexed. Caption title. Text begins: The undersigned will offer at... Photostat copy.
Dates:
1837 February 20
Hampshire County Petition, 1837 March 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Hampshire County
Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia. Your memorialists respectfully represent, that the passage of a law at the last legislature, authorizing a survey of a route for a road, which survey was made, but made so far north of the proper route that it would remain a grievance to the citizens of Fredick and Hardy Counties as well as to the others... your memorialists pray that further legislation be suspended upon said route, and an act...
Dates:
1837 March 16
Ohio County Petition, 1838 January 04
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the senate and house of delegates of VA. The petition of the subscribers, citizens of the city of Wheeling, in the county of Ohio, respectfully sheweth, that, by the charter of 1836, the power of the council to tax titheables and real estate, is wisely limited; yet by the same charter, the council is empowered to tax auctioneers, ordinary keepers, &c. at their discretion. If it be wise or proper, that the power of the council...
Dates:
1838 January 04
Brooke County Petition, 1838 January 06
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned, citizens of Brooke County, respectfully but earnestly ask, that the road laws of this commonwealth be amended in the following particulars:
1st.--Two dollar poll tax or work on roads...
2nd.--Revision of state revenue assessment...
3rd.--Provisions regulating collection of road taxes be changed...etc.
4th.--Court be authorized to have lands revalued to equalize...
Dates:
1838 January 06
Wood County Petition, 1838 January 20
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Wood County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned, residents of the country lying on the Little Kanawha River and its tributaries, respectfully represent: The valley embraces portions of the counties of Wood, Jackson, Kanawha, Lewis, and Braxton have valuable mineral resources but is still destitute of conveniences and facilities of transportation... your memorialists pray the passage of a law providing for the construction of as...
Dates:
1838 January 20
Ohio County Petition, 1838 February 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned citizens of Ohio County respectfully represent the introduction in the general assembly of a proposition for the improvement of the state upon a scale adequate to the development of her resources... your memorialists believe that a road from Clarksburg to the Ohio River at Wheeling would obviate many of the difficulties under which we lie in this respect...etc.
Xerox copy...
Dates:
1838 February 16
Berkeley County Petition, 1838 February 23
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Content Warning: this broadside contains content discussing the enforcement of chattel slavery.
Place of Publication: Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: A petition, to the honorable the general assembly of Virginia. The petition of the undersigned citizens of Berkeley County represent:-- They cherish a deep interest in the success of the cause of colonizing our free Black population with their own consent. On the western coast of Africa... and the approbation of the cause by the...
Dates:
1838 February 23
Berkeley County Petition, 1838 March 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of the state of Virginia: The undersigned inhabitants of Berkeley County respectfully represent: that the B&O Rail Road Co. Between the present termination of their road at Harpers Ferry and the Ohio River, caused surveys to be made in Virginia, which as your memorialists have understood, have resulted in the discovery of several routes between Harpers Ferry and Cumberland, lying in whole...
Dates:
1838 March 16
The Carrier's Address to the Patrons of the Martinsburg Gazette, 1839 January 01
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Martinsburg, Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: The carrier's address, to the patrons of the Martinsburg Gazette, January 1, 1839.
2 cols. Dated: Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. January 1, 1839.
Caption title. Photostat copy.
Loan. Delf Norona.
1926 Oct 26
Source: A&M 912
Dates:
1839 January 01