Map cabinet 2

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Jefferson County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA. The petition of the subscribers, stockholders in the Bank of the Valley in VA., & neighborhood, and other parts of the valley, respectfully represents -- they are desirous of being connected with VA. interests and VA. institutions; in conjunction with the other subscribers pray passage of a law, increasing the capital stock of the bank of the valley in VA. $130,000 for the purpose...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Wood County Index Card Notes: To the legislature of VA. The undersigned inhabitants of certain portions of Wood, Harrison, & Lewis Counties; beg leave to represent to your honorable body that they are much inconvenienced traveling to their various seats of justice by the great distances and bad roads. They respectfully pray you to erect a new county out of the following described territory ... etc. Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the senate and house of VA. The memorial of the inhabitants of Berkeley County, VA., respectfully sheweth ... that the dreadful effects of drunkenness in every department of society which your memorialists desires to call the attention of the legislature ... may it be extended to arrest the progress of this desolating evil and protect the innocent members of the family ... etc. Xerox copy Purchase Va. State Library...

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Place of Publication: Clarksburg
Index Card Notes: Clarksburg. Independent Virginian.
Proposals, for publishing in Clarksburg, Virginia, a weekly news-paper, to be entitled The Independent Virginian. By William M'Granaghan .../Clarksburg, 1819/
Sheet trimmed. Subscribers list.
Transferred from Monon. Co. Ct. Rec. 1960 Jun 30
Env. 257
Jackson, Vachel, etal vs Newbrough, Joseph & Soloman

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monongalia County Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia: Your petitioners, citizens of the north west part of VA., call your attention to the improvement of the road from the PA. Line by way of Morgantown and Clarksburg, through the counties of Monongalia, Harrison, and Wood, in a direction towards Parkersburg or Marietta, on the Ohio River ... of great importance to the people of Western VA ... etc. We therefore pray that a law may be passed...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA. The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of Berkeley Co. respectfully represents -- ... the length of the road contemplated by your petitioners, will be about 58 miles -- nineteen of which will be in MD. and 39 in VA. passing through the counties of Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson ... we pray that and act may be passed authorizing a turnpike co. Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State...

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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