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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...

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Place of Publication: Martinsburg, Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: TO THE PUBLIC. /Martinsburg? 1831/
19 1/4 x 12 3/8. 4 cols. Printed on both sides of sheet. Signed: T. Davis. Dated: December 24, 1831. Caption title. Text begins: whoever has observed...
Controversy with Edward Lucas, arising from the congressional election of August 1831.
Davis,
2 original copies
from: Berkeley Co. Ct. Newsps. 1955 Dec.

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Place of Publication: Martinsburg, Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: Address to the patrons of the Martinsburg Gazette, by the carrier -- Alias the devil. New Year's Morning, 1832. /Martinsburg, 1832/
16 7/8 x 10 3/4. 2 cols. Dated at the bottom of sheet: January 2, 1832. Illustrated at head of title by spread eagle with banner reading: E Pluribus Unum.
From: Berkeley Co. Ct. Newsps. 1955 Dec.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monongalia County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The undersigned citizens of Monongalia County, represent to your honorable body, that an passed concerning delinquent lands, which provides, among other things... That all lands lying on the Western waters returned delinquent in the year 1821 or any year subsequent thereto, shall, on the first day of Nov. 1833, be absolutely forfeited and vested in the commonwealth, unless the taxes and...

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Place of Publication: Morgan County
Index Card Notes: TO THE PEOPLE OF MORGAN COUNTY. /Martinsburg? 1832/
18 x 12. 2 cols. Signed: Henry A. Byrne. Dated: Morgan County, January 23, 1832. Caption Title.
On a contest election in the House of Delegates in which Byrne lost his seat.
From: Berkeley Co. Ct. Newsps. 1955 Dec.