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Surveyors and surveying.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Trickett, Blacksmith, Account Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2827
Overview

Blacksmith's account book, belonging to Joseph Trickett of Preston County, (West) Virginia. Also includes accounts of land transfers and coal rights, and some family records. Dates are scattered 1851-1904. Front page of book indicates it was originally intended to be used as a Minute book for the Ebenezer Regular Baptist Church, 1845, Preston County, Virginia, but there are no records of the church in the volume.

Dates: 1851-1904
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Logan County Court Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2733
Overview Birth, marriage, and death records, registers and indexes, deed, will, map, land, lease, and minute books. Indexes of grants, leases, and wills. Surveyor's maps, surveyor records, and survey record indexes. Table of town lots, appraisement, and sale book. Mechanic's lien records, contract records, commissioner's records petitions and records, repatriation petitions. Naturalization index and declarations of intention records. These records reflect the economic and population growth typical of...
Dates: 1846-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Luther Haymond, Surveyor, Diary and Surveyor's Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0772
Scope and Contents

A hand written journal kept by Col. Luther Haymond of Harrison County, [W.] Va., from 1830-1833, telling of his travels and experiences at the time. The journal notes Haymond’s observations while traveling by horse from Harrison County, West Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland. There are descriptions of Baltimore, Romney, Charles Town, and other places.

Dates: 1830-1833
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Luther Haymond, Surveyor, Diary and Surveyor's Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1797
Scope and Contents

A manuscript surveyor's book of first five-mile section of the Weston and Fairmont Road. Haymond was Engineer for the Weston & Fairmont Turnpike Co., 1849. The drawings show the cuts and fills to be made during the first five miles.

Dates: 1849
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Marshall County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1672
Overview County and circuit clerks records, arranged chronologically. Records for the years 1835-1857, include bonds of ministers, tavern operators, ordinaries, ferries, and county officials; estate settlements; records pertaining to road, bridge, and public building; records of the overseer of the poor; school commissioners' and surveyors' appointments; and lists of county officials. Records for 1863-1874 include county supervisors' records; records of the Fairmont and Wheeling Turnpike; and muster...
Dates: 1831-1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mary P. Osborne, Collector, Ledgers regarding Road Construction

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0415
Overview

One survey record book of Salt Sulphur Springs road, 1812; one survey record book of Phillip Lybrook, 1821-1824; one surveyor's account and record book of Salt Sulphur and Mt. Lake Turnpike Company, 1857-1862.

Dates: 1812-1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

McCoy Family Papers

 Collection
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

Monongalia and Harrison Counties Surveys

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0699
Overview Two manuscript volumes containing surveyors' field notes for Harrison County, and copies of Monongalia County surveys, compiled by members of the Haymond family. These notes also contain: information concerning acreage cleared, location and type of construction of the homes of some early residents of Harrison County; dates of patents and names of those persons to whom patents were issued; street courses and survey of the corporation of Clarksburg, 1835; and names of members of a survey...
Dates: 1795-1796, 1816, 1834-1836, 1843, 1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Land and Legal Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0585
Overview

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.

Dates: ca. 1783-1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Land and Legal Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0499
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,...
Dates: 1799
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center