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Land records - surveys.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0934
Overview Papers of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884) and family. Charles J. Faulkner was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Includes business and land papers of James Faulkner of Baltimore, 1804-1811; letters to and papers of Charles J. Faulkner; a colored plat of a survey made for William McMurtrie [1786, Harrison, now Upshur County] along French Creek; and a Thomas Haymond survey plat in Harrison County,...
Dates: 1786-1892

Harrison County Court Records, Survey for Land in Monongalia County

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4166
Overview

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.

Dates: ca. 1812-1818

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

Lawrence A. Lang, Collector, West Virginia Land Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3833
Scope and Contents

West Virginia land records, including receipts for fees paid, surveys, certificates of survey, land patents, grants, correspondence and other material. Some of the records are copies rather than official documents. The records are sorted by the names of buyers and stored in envelopes. Recorded to the fronts of the envelopes is information relevant to their contents.

Dates: 1865-1896; Majority of material found within 1867-1868

Montgomery County, Virginia, Plat and Survey for Land Owned by Samuel McCraw

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4152
Overview

A certified copy of an original plat and survey of 1131 acres of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. The copy and the original are dated 1787. The land was surveyed by James Hines for owner Samuel McCraw. The land was later sold to William Whitcroft, who in turn sold the land to Patrick Murray.

Dates: 1787

William Seibert, Resident of Berkeley County, Virginia, Financial and Legal Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3704
Overview Financial and legal papers of William Seibert of Berkeley County, Virginia. Contains three bills owed by Seibert, one for food, drink, horse feed, etc. that appears to be from an inn (1842; Philip Carper was the vendor), another bill for two years subscription to the German grave yard fence (1844), and another for a large water bucket (1846). Also contains one survey of land owned by Seibert (1819; ), articles of agreement between Samuel Seibert and George Newkirk concerning the sale of land...
Dates: 1818-1847; Majority of material found within 1842-1847