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Court records

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Ohio County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0031
Overview

County court and public records consisting primarily of court dockets and records relating to these court proceedings, including order, execution, minute, and fee books. There are also various public records, including land records, birth, marriage, and death, estate settlement, and naturalizations. There are a small number of private papers of businesses involved in court cases.

Dates: 1772-1954; Majority of material found within 1777 - 1930
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pendleton County Court Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0038
Overview

Legal papers pertaining to Pendleton County, (West) Virginia from 1789 to 1880. Includes bonds, marriage bonds, capiases, affidavits, indentures, and military commissions signed by Virginia governors.

Dates: 1789-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Preston County Court Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2578
Overview

The court record volumes of Preston County consisting of tax lists of both land and personal property, justice dockets, and circuit court records. There are alien declaration books and voting lists. There are also some private account books notably of a dry goods store, Parks & McGrew.

Dates: 1872-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Preston County Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0956
Overview Papers from the Leroy Bucklew Museum in the Preston County, West Virginia, courthouse. The collection includes early papers relating to land, court cases, mills and furnaces, post offices, inns, mineral development, Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Company, roads, the Virginia-Maryland boundary, and estate settlements. There are photographs of Preston County and Kingwood, and maps of Kingwood, Bruceton Mills, Rowlesburg, Manheim, and of Berkeley Springs, Morgan County. Also includes...
Dates: 1775-1918
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Raleigh County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1262
Overview

Trial docket; order, oath, bond, minute and land books; and court of quarterly sessions, overseers of the poor, marriage, and supervisors records.

Dates: 1850-1916
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Summers County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0655
Overview

County court records consisting primarily of marriage records and sheriff settlements relating to roads, schools, and poor funds. There are also estate administration papers; lunacy proceedings; Board of Education records; receipts and bank records; other misc. records, and an account book of the firm of Meador and Graham in Hinton, WV. There are also some papers of former clerks E. H. Peck and P. B. Pack.

Dates: 1859-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Taylor County Justice Docket

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1575
Overview Civil docket of justices of the peace W.E. Rightmire and A.B. Knabenshue. There is a description of each case which includes names, dates, sum in dispute, and decision of court. There are files on the strike relief fund; organizing activities; New Deal and wartime agencies; labor mediation and arbitration; and Congressional labor legislation such as the Taft-Hartley Act. There are also records of the state conventions and of the Political Action Committee (PAC). The files of the West...
Dates: 1935-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Tucker County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0060
Overview

Circuit and county court suit and other papers from Tucker County. Alphabetical, chronological, and subject indexes to these records are available.

Dates: 1853-1870
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Tyler County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0433
Scope and Contents

Records of appearances in Tyler County court between 1826 and 1833.

Dates: ca. 1817-1833
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Tyler County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0434
Overview

Circuit and county court papers including minute books, order books, witness books, rule books, execution books, and trial dockets. There are poll books for state and federal elections (1816-52).

Dates: ca. 1788-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center