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William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1695
Overview

History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.

Dates: 1893
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates: 1743-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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American Colonization Society 1
Brody, John. 1
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Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832 1
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Greene, John. 1
Greene, Richard. 1
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Haymond, William (1771-1848) 1
Haymond, William. 1
Loomis, F.B. 1
Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary 1
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company 1
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Morgan, George 1
Ohio Company. 1
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Reeder, Benjamin. 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
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Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company 1
Woodbridge Mercantile Company 1
Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr. 1
Woodbridge, George M. 1
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