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Barns Family Records
Greene County, Pennsylvania, Genealogy Index
A card file of the Greene County Historical Society, Pennsylvania, containing genealogical notes and index entries for genealogical sources relating to Greene County, PA and the surrounding region for the period ca. 1740-1980. The cards are alphabetized by name.
Isaac & Josiah Williams Brick Company, Account Books
An account book, payroll ledgers, bills and invoices of Isaac and Josiah Williams, Uniontown, PA brick manufacturers. Included is a separate account, written by the donor about the Williams family and their importance in the local history of Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Isaac Meason, Iron Producer, Iron Industry Ledgers
The ledgers highlight the business activities of iron furnaces and stores owned by Isaac Meason, a pioneer iron producer in Fayette County, Pennsylvania (arguably the first west of the Allegheny Mountains). The volumes include records of Union Furnace, Union Iron Works, Mt. Vernon Furnace, Centre Furnace, and a record of teamster work. A small portion of one volume includes a common pleas court docket for Fayette County, PA in the 1830s.
John Rogers Correspondence
The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.
Lewis Family Papers
Michael K. Johnson, Collector, Papers
Raymond Martin Bell, Five Short Essays
Five short mimeographed essays authored by Raymond Martin Bell of Washington and Jefferson College. Included are: "The Townships of Mother Cumberland", "From James to Richard: The Nixon Line", "Redstone Circuit in 1786", "Early Methodist Church Buildings", and "The Journal of Robert Ayres: Methodist Circuit Rider".