Surveyors and surveying.
Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:
Hardy County Papers
Harper Family Papers
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.
Harrison County Land Records
A land grant signed by Patrick Henry, dated March 21, 1786, to Thomas Proctor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for 3,000 acres of land along the Hughes River; a manuscript plat of land; and a volume of field notes taken in laying out the town of Montgomery, compiled by Abraham Nelson, Junior, for Col. Thomas Proctor, 1788-1789.
Harrison County Land Records
Abstracts of Harrison County Land titles abstracted by Attorney George W. Bland (1866-1941).
Haymond Family Papers
James William Kuykendall Papers
Papers of a land surveyor from Hardy County include family and business correspondence, 1888-1926; letters from George Benson Kuykendall on family genealogy, 1911-1914; Kuykendall's correspondence as a member of the county board of education, 1908-1915; account books, diaries, surveying notes, Sunday school class book, 1876-1923; and plats, surveys, and deeds of land in the Hardy-Grant County area.
J.N. Wilkinson Surveyor's Field Book
Wilkinson, a resident of Bridgeport, recorded in this book the record of surveys which he did for private individuals, county courts, and mining companies in Doddridge, Harrison, and Marion counties.
John Archer, Two Letters regarding Tracts of Land on the Gauley River, Greenbrier County
This collection consists of two letters signed by John Archer. One of the letters is not dated and the other letter is dated 19 August 1786. These letters relate to the quality of 2 tracts of land each 4000 acres on the waters of the Gauley River, Greenbrier County, Virginia. The surveys which were conducted by John Archer were requested by Adonijah Matthews and William Morrow.
John Morton Ledgers
Diaries, account books, and a surveyor's handbook belonging to John Morton, a farmer of Hollidays Cove, Brooke County, West Virginia. The surveyor's book includes lessons on logarithm, geometry, plane trigonometry, and surveying. The diaries and account books record Morton's life and significant events of the period. There is also an undated land deed, a property list of Morton's father, John Morton, and some genealogical information.