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Ellison Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates: 1819-1977
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence A. Lang, Collector, West Virginia Land Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3833
Scope and Contents

West Virginia land records, including receipts for fees paid, surveys, certificates of survey, land patents, grants, correspondence and other material. Some of the records are copies rather than official documents. The records are sorted by the names of buyers and stored in envelopes. Recorded to the fronts of the envelopes is information relevant to their contents.

Dates: 1865-1896; Majority of material found within 1867-1868
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0102
Overview

Court case papers, wills, deeds, surveys and plats, ca.1772-1879, along with bound volumes of court records, deeds, estrays, road and tax records, a register for free blacks, and private account books, 1783-1923. The account books include: records of a U.S. Army post hospital at Union, 1867-1869; oil well drilling, 1886-1890; Union and Fort Spring Stage Line, 1876-1877; newspapers, 1867-1903; taverns, 1815-1872; and Union Lyceum minutes, 1845-1847.

Dates: ca. 1772-1923
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Southeastern West Virginia Historical Records, Civil War Letters and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2169
Overview Records relating to the history of southeastern West Virginia. Most of the items in the collection relate to Greenbrier and/or Monroe County. Includes antebellum (1833-1850; 7 items), Civil War (1861-1863; 4 items), and postbellum (1886-1933; 9 items) materials. Antebellum material includes a land suit, an estate report and schedule, other financial documents, and personal letter. Civil War material includes four letters authored by Confederate soldiers. Two of these letters describe the...
Dates: 1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1833-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Account books 2
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
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African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
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Civil War -- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Civil War - West Virginia. 1
Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
Civil War -- letters 1
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Land - deeds, grants, and papers. 1
Land records - surveys. 1
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Logan County. 1
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Medicine - Folk remedies. 1
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Rivers and river valleys. 1
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
Soldiers' letters - Civil War. 1
Taverns (Inns) 1
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Transportation 1
Travel accounts. 1
Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
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Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
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Webster County (W. Va.) 1
West Virginia - Civil War. 1
Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
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Dunlap family 1
Ellison family 1
Ellison, Allison Dunlap. 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
Keadle, Charles Alexander. 1
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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 1
Monroe County Court 1
Petrie family 1
Petrie, William. 1
Sharitz family 1
Union Lyceum (West Virginia) 1
Union and Fort Spring Stage Line. 1
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 1
Yonce family 1
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