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Surveyors and surveying.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1855
Scope and Contents Xerox copies of the correspondence of William White, Cregan Cave (Greenbrier County) 1871-1897. William White (II) fitted himself to become a land surveyor, and for many years held the official position of surveyor of Greenbrier County. Letters relate to surveys and sale of several acres of land for George S. and John C. Knox and E. C. Halliday.Other letters relating to property and deeds are from G. W. Black, Elvira Fenton, J. R. Crawford, J. W. Watson, Dennis Landis, Lucy A....
Dates: 1869-1964

Thomas W. Dixon, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1859
Scope and Contents Accounts of businesses and the Grange, in Alderson, WV. Include: Flash 1, 1872-1883, Alderson Presbyterian Church and Masonic Hall journal and day book. Flash 2, 1883-1887, cash book, bank account and journal, separate account for R. W. Gardner and R. J. Bell. Flash 3, 1897, 1898 day book record of fines and costs for cases listed as debits, rest of book is cash book listing people almost exclusively. Flash 4, in 4 parts, journal and ledger of Brights Mill, Alderson; in addition to standard...
Dates: 1872-1899

Van Meter Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0569
Scope and Contents

Deeds, and parchment grants for land in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, 1775-1849, signed by governors of Virginia, beginning with Edmund Randolph; and one photostat account of Jacob Van Meter with Jacob and John Clower showing the cost of constructing the Van Meter home in Hampshire County, 1842-1845.

Dates: 1775-1849

Virginia Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1240
Scope and Contents

Microfilm include State Land Office Records; S. Bassett French, Biographical Sketches; Mott-Alston Collection of Colonial Families; Confederate Service Records of Virginia Soldiers; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Bounty Warrants; Revolutionary Pensions; Revolutionary War, Rejected Claims; Family Genealogical Notes; and List of Baptist records at the University of Richmond.

Dates: 1623-1933

William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1695
Overview

History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.

Dates: 1893