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Bayles Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0779
Overview Correspondence and genealogical notes of John C. Bayles of Morgantown relating to the histories of the Bayles, Vandervort and other Monongalia County families. Also included are materials on the history of West Virginia University buildings and the department of buildings and grounds, compiled by Mr. Bayles; originals and copies of wills, deeds, and land surveys in Monongalia County; an account book for general merchandise, Monongalia County, 1857-1859; newspaper clippings; photographs; a...
Dates: 1827-1945

Benjamin Trembly, Deed for Sale of Land in Preston County, West Virginia

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Collection Number: A&M 4001
Overview

Deed for the sale of land owned by Benjamin Trembly to John Trembly for 300 dollars. The land is described as being located in Monongalia County (now Preston County), along the bank of Big Sandy Creek. The document is described as both a deed (on the outside) and an indenture (in the main text).

Dates: 1812-1813

Deakins Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0624
Scope and Contents Additional Deakins family papers, consisting of correspondence, bond of conveyance, deeds, surveys and plats. [ALS] to Colonel Francis Deakin from John Compton, 1793, relative to surveys made by John Compton in 1792; bond of conveyance for land in Randolph County owned by Deakins heirs, 1809; five deeds for land owned by the Deakins family in Randolph and Preston counties W. Va., 1808-1885; 1848 deed from Francis Deakins to Northwestern Turnpike Co.; seven surveys and plats for lands in...
Dates: 1778-1881

Edward C. Bunker (1830-1867) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1615
Overview

Legal papers of a Morgantown lawyer, partner of United States Senator Waitman T. Willey, prosecuting attorney of Monongalia County, state senator, and judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court. Included are papers which relate to Bunker's Civil War service and Willey's legal practice. There are a few items of correspondence on land speculation and immigration in post-Civil War West Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1850-1865, 1901

Elvin Lycurgus Judy Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0634
Scope and Contents The papers of Elvin Lycurgus [E.L.] Judy (1870-1954), a Petersburg attorney and author of History of Grant and Hardy Counties, West Virginia (Charleston, 1951). These papers, mainly research files used in the writing of the county history, consist of copies and originals of correspondence, land records, census and military records, and genealogical information for the eastern Panhandle counties, Monongalia County, and the border counties of Virginia and Maryland....
Dates: ca. 1949

Eugene Levassor Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1363
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, maps and printed materials of a French emigre, land speculator, and merchant from Cincinnati and Parkersburg. Subjects include Levassor's extensive landholdings in Kanawha, Lincoln, Jackson, Wood, Wirt, and Monongalia counties, and activities of his land agents; James Swann lands; the coming of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad to Parkersburg; the Panic of 1857 in that city; oil fever in the Wood County area, 1859-1866; and the activities of J.H....
Dates: 1796-1894

Felix Snider Records regarding Snider Property in Grant District, Monongalia County

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Collection Number: A&M 0980
Overview A certified abstract to the Felix Snider property of Grant district, Monongalia County, indicating leases of mineral rights, describing location of property and payment of taxes. There is a history of this acreage from when it was patented (1809) by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the heirs of George Snider to the settlement (1930) of the Felix Snider Estate. Included in the abstract are legal actions among the heirs, warranty deeds, plats, and wills. Part of this tract is still owned by the...
Dates: 1920-1930

Harrison County Court Records, Survey for Land in Monongalia County

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4166
Overview

Copy of a survey dated 1785 for 400 acres of land in Monongalia County claimed by Robison Lucas. The copy dates from between 1812 and 1818 and mentions a conflicting survey made by Morgan Morgan in 1785. The copy is attested by Samuel Hanway, official surveyor of Monongalia County.

Dates: ca. 1812-1818

Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates: 1760-1936

John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0005
Scope and Contents

This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1777-1857

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Monongalia County (W. Va.) 29
Land. 22
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Mills and mill-work 6
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
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Surveyors and surveying. 5
Education 4
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Lawyers - letters and papers. 4
Maryland 4
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 4
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 4
Account books 3
Fairmont (W. Va.) 3
Marion County (W. Va.) 3
Ohio 3
Politics and government. 3
Taxation 3
Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
Birth, marriage, and death records. 2
Builders and contractors. 2
Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 2
Church buildings 2
Churches -- Methodist 2
Churches -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 2
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 2
Coal mining - coal companies. 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 2
General stores 2
Greene County (Pa.) 2
Immigration. 2
Indians of North America 2
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 2
Jackson County (W. Va.) 2
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 2
Land - deeds and grants. 2
Land grants - Monongalia County, (West Virginia). 2
Land records and papers. 2
Mississippi 2
Monongalia County (W. Va.) -- Surveys 2
Monongalia County - Land. 2
Ohio County (W. Va.) 2
Pennsylvania 2
Petroleum industry and trade 2
Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 2
Revolutionary War. 2
Slavery -- West Virginia -- Monongalia County 2
Taylor County (W. Va.) 2
Travel accounts. 2
Universities and colleges 2
Virginia 2
West Virginia -- History 2
Wood County (W. Va.) 2
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Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) 1
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 1
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Authors -- Letters and papers 1
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Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
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Blacksville (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides. 1
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Cemeteries -- Oak Grove Cemetery 1
Cemeteries and cemetery readings 1
Churches -- Episcopal 1
Churches -- Fairview Church 1
Churches -- Presbyterian 1
Churches -- Protestant Episcopal 1
Civil War -- Manuscript poem 1
Civil War - Ohio 11th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 14th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. Company A 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry 1
Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry, Company A. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
Coal miners 1
Coal mining - coal industry. 1
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
Coal mining. 1
Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
Court records 1
Cumberland (Md.) 1
Deckers Creek 1
Election of 1860. 1
England 1
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Names
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 4
West Virginia University 3
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 2
Morgantown Bridge Company 2
Rogers, John, 1786-1864 2
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West Virginia. Legislature 2
West, Rufus A. 2
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 2
Agricultural College of West Virginia 1
Austin family 1
Bailey family 1
Baker family 1
Bayles, John C. 1
Bayless family 1
Bennett, Henry. 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Bennett, Joseph and Henry 1
Bennett, Joseph. 1
Berkshire, R.L. 1
Brand, Charles I. 1
Brown, John, Jr. 1
Brown, William G. (William Gay), 1800-1884 1
Bunker, Edward C. 1
Bunker, Edward C. (1830-1867) 1
Bunner family 1
Calmes, George 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Chadwick family 1
Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 1
Cochran, Nathaniel. 1
Compton, John 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John R. 1
Cratzer's Tavern 1
Crogan, Patrick J., 1856-1949 1
Cutlip, P. G. 1
David, S. O. 1
Day, Solomon. 1
DeVaul family 1
Deakins family 1
Deakins, Francis. 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Devore, Leland Swarts 1
Dille, Thomas Ray 1
Duke, William, 1757-1840 1
Faber, George B. 1
Fairmont State College (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1
Fast/Fass/Faust family. 1
Fellers, Dr. Edward D. 1
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 1
Fletcher, Mrs. J.D. 1
Friend, William. 1
Gay, Matthew. 1
Greer, H.C. 1
Hacker family 1
Hagans and Frum 1
Hagans and Spahr 1
Hagans, George M. 1
Hagans, Lynch and Protzman 1
Hahn family 1
Hall family 1
Hanway, Samuel 1
Harrison County - (West) Virginia militia. 1
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 1
Hayman family 1
Haymond, Alpheus F. 1
Haymond, Henry 1
Haymond, William. 1
Haymond-Fleming Law Firm 1
Heiskell Memorial Hospital 1
Helmick family 1
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 1
Hoye, John 1
Huldeman, Joseph H. 1
Huston, C.R. 1
Jarvis, R. E. L., Dr. 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Jolliffe family 1
Judy, Elvin Lycurgus. 1
Keck, L.V. 1
Keister-Jenkins family. 1
Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836 1
Kingwood and West Union Turnpike Company 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Lanham family 1
Lazier, Henry B. 1
LeVelle family 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Lewellen family 1
Lisez, Charles. 1
Lucas, Rawley 1
Marion County Historical Society (W. Va.) 1
Martin, Alexander. 1
Mason, J. M. 1
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 1
McCleery, Isabelle Stockton. 1
McCleery, William, 1741-1821 1
McCleery, William. 1
McGee, John. 1
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