Overview Miscellaneous nineteenth-century financial, legal, and military materials chiefly related to the Dille, Dawson, and Evans families of Morgantown, Virginia (now West Virginia). Papers chiefly contain surveys of and land grants for Monongalia County, Virginia, from 1792 to 1875 (many of these are oversize), including plats sold to O.H. Dille in 1839 and 1875. There is also an oversized plan of Morgantown, Virginia, 1785-1824, showing deeds along the Monongahela River and Decker's Creek....

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Indentures (28 items), including land deeds and trusts, from Monongalia County, Virginia dating from 1810 to 1851. Family names include: Chadwick, Miller, Hall, Lazier, Baker, Hull, and Berkshire, among others. In addition to currency, transactions were conducted with bedding, clocks, cows, iron bars, and tools, among other items.

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Deed from William W. Price and wife to Levi Low, Richard Price and Samuel Webb, trustees for land on Big Indian Creek, Monongalia County, on which meeting house and school are located for use of churches and school. Specifies time when each church is to have use of meeting house.

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Includes grants for land in Monongalia County to James Calbreath, assignee of Joseph Tidball; William Austin, assignee of Thomas Laidley; Samuel Hanway; and Zackquil Morgan, signed by governors Henry Lee, James Monroe and James Barbour.

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A grant to John Simpson for four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County, signed by Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia.

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Monongalia land grants, 1784-1841. See inventory sheet for a list of grantees and assignees. The collection also includes a few grants for Montgomery County.

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Deeds, warrants, surveys, inventory of estate of Thomas Dell, Chapter County, Pennsylvania, 1750, and a surveyor's field book; material on Albert Gallatin's Monongalia County lands included.

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Deeds, warrants, surveys and other legal papers from Monongalia County.

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A schedule of the personal property of Hezekiah Catlett; bond of Jesse Wright to Sine & Co.; a writ of the circuit court summoning William Price to testify in the suit of Enos Myers v. Jacob Myers.

Scope and Contents Site of Morgantown given, along with boundaries and owners of land along the south side of a line running northeast for the mouth of Decker's Creek to Cheat river, and along the west side of the Monongahela River in Cass district to the Pennsylvania line; located are Jackson's iron works, site of Jackson ore digging, Pleasant Furnace, Ice's Ferry, poor house, and roads; some owners' names given are: John Davis, Thomas Evans, Jarrett, Andrew Ice, Jenkins, Jesse and William Bayles, John Tibbs,...