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C. Ed. Lukens Broadside for Public Sale of Land

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Collection Number: A&M 3835
Overview

Color reproduction of a broadside advertising the public sale of lands of C. Ed Lukens, deceased. The lands to be sold are described as valuable timber, farming, and grazing lands and are located in Randolph and Pendleton counties. The broadside lists terms of sale and also describes the individual acreages for sale, including about 6,440 acres comprising twelve plots of land in Raleigh county and 523 acres comprising three farms in Pendleton county.

Dates: 1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0627
Scope and Contents Letters to David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). These sixteen letters cover topics including land in Randolph and Tucker counties,...
Dates: 1852-1868
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0975
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes...
Dates: 1826-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

David Goff Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1027
Scope and Contents Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). The papers include correspondence; land papers, particularly, for Randolph County; court...
Dates: 1840-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harper Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3090
Overview

The land and legal papers of a Tucker and Randolph County family. Included are power of attorney documents between Jerome Harper of British Columbia and Ezekial Harper of Tucker County. There is also a note of a land survey done for Albert Gallatin. Other names mentioned are Jonathan W. Harper, David Goff and Wyatt J. Ferguson.

Dates: 1794-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Holt Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0628
Overview

Papers of Samuel T.H. Holt, and other members of the Holt family of Philippi, West Virginia. There are deeds centering in Randolph, Barbour, and Tucker counties; correspondence; a medical prescription; and a clipping on Whitescarver Hall, Broaddus Institute, Philippi. Mention is made of the Wheeling Development Company.

Dates: 1887-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates: 1914-1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence A. Lang, Collector, West Virginia Land Records

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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

McCoy Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0558
Overview Business correspondence and papers, including land grants and deeds, 1761-1881, surveys, wills, and account books of William McCoy, Sr. and Jr., of Pendleton County. There are papers on the administration of estates; management of property in Mercer, Pendleton, and Randolph counties, and in Augusta and Highland counties, Virginia, for absentee owners; and on farm operations. There is material on the Central Bank of Virginia at Staunton; the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike Company; and...
Dates: 1761-1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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American Constitutional League 1
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Broaddus Institute. Whitescarver Hall 1
Brown, William G. (William Gay), 1800-1884 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
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Daughters of the American Revolution. West Virginia Chapters 1
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Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933 1
Goodykoontz, Wells, 1872-1944 1
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Harper, Ezekial. 1
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Haymond, Creed, 1836-1893 1
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Hughes, John, 1797-1864 1
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Lantz family 1
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission 1
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Lukens, C. Ed. 1
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Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 1
McCoy family 1
McCoy, William Jr. 1
McCoy, William Sr. 1
Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike Company 1
National American Woman Suffrage Association 1
National Woman's Party 1
New England Mississippi Land Company 1
Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955 1
Penrose, Boies, 1860-1921 1
Preston, Jeriel. 1
Price, Samuel, 1805-1884 1
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West Virginia Equal Suffrage League 1
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Whetzel, Jesse. 1
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Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 1
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