Monongalia County - Land.

Overview

Indentures (28 items), including land deeds and trusts, from Monongalia County, Virginia dating from 1810 to 1851. Family names include: Chadwick, Miller, Hall, Lazier, Baker, Hull, and Berkshire, among others. In addition to currency, transactions were conducted with bedding, clocks, cows, iron bars, and tools, among other items.

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Xerox copy of land grant document signed by Virginia Governor Patrick Henry giving John Reed one thousand acres on the west bank of the Little Kanawha River.

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Copy of a survey dated 1785 for 400 acres of land in Monongalia County claimed by Robison Lucas. The copy dates from between 1812 and 1818 and mentions a conflicting survey made by Morgan Morgan in 1785. The copy is attested by Samuel Hanway, official surveyor of Monongalia County.

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Indenture (original) documenting sale of lot 194 in Blacksville, West Virginia from David Black, founder of Blacksville, to George Johnston on 19 March 1830. The indenture was filed in Greene County, Pennsylvania.

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Monongalia land grants, 1784-1841. See inventory sheet for a list of grantees and assignees. The collection also includes a few grants for Montgomery County.

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Deeds, warrants, surveys, inventory of estate of Thomas Dell, Chapter County, Pennsylvania, 1750, and a surveyor's field book; material on Albert Gallatin's Monongalia County lands included.

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Deeds, warrants, surveys and other legal papers from Monongalia County.

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A grant to John Simpson for four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County, signed by Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia.

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,...

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Deed from William W. Price and wife to Levi Low, Richard Price and Samuel Webb, trustees for land on Big Indian Creek, Monongalia County, on which meeting house and school are located for use of churches and school. Specifies time when each church is to have use of meeting house.