Pruntytown (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin F. Miller Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3037
Overview
Letter to Susanna from Morgantown describing hot weather and working arduously in a farm's wheat and oat field. He mentions the courthouse at Pruntytown being struck by lightening. He also gives his opinion about hypocrisy among church members saying that they can no more "square their lives by the Great Moral Code than a jackass can square himself on a sharp edged rail for a fiddler at a camp meeting of bull frogs."
Dates:
1855 Aug 13
Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0111
Scope and Contents
The papers received from Mr. Brinkman in 1938 include manuscripts, typescripts, and printed items, and general merchandise account books. The manuscript items are mainly letters, receipts, account statements, and certificates concerning the general merchandise business of George Brinkman in Grafton, Grafton Gas Works, Charles Brinkman's History of Grafton, history of the first memorial service and the location of the National Cemetery in Grafton (Box 13), and stock in the Grafton &...
Dates:
1852-1952
Charles Brinkman, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1086
Scope and Contents
The papers include 36 volumes of business and other records, such as the ledgers of the George W. Brinkman merchandising firm, the Mutual Building Company, minutesof the Grafton Rotary Club; journal and statistical report of the Grafton Baptist Church, 1897-1906; and a mas. history of Taylor County in various American wars, and extracts from the Civil War diary of Fabricius A. Cather. Also included are 2 boxes of financial records, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, a partial index to...
Dates:
1868-1938
Charles R. Williams, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2108
Overview
An 1851 letter to Rebecca Coplin from Harriet Burdett of Pruntytown, West Virginia, on community health, family affairs and Methodist church matters. A merchandise account book, 1859-63, of an unidentified general store owner and inn keeper; steamboat bills of lading for the Kathryn and French of the Little Kanawha Packet Line (Creston-Parkersburg), 1899 and 1905. There are also mimeographed sketches on the history, topography, scenery, agriculture, geology, rural development and natural...
Dates:
1834, 1851-1905
Ford Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1688
Overview
Stock receipt, Taylor County Agricultural and Mechanical Society, 1870; a pass from Headquarters, United States Volunteers, Grafton, dated 3 August 1861; passes from the toll office of Valley River Bridge, Northwestern Turnpike, 1860-1863; list of indigent school children, District 17, Taylor County; and muster fines and receipts bearing Morgantown, Fairmont, and Pruntytown imprints.
Dates:
1829-1882
General Store in Taylor County, Virginia, Account Ledger
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4156
Scope and Contents
Ledger of ca. 340 pages documenting transactions for a general store in Williamsport, Virginia (Pruntyton, West Virginia, in Taylor County). Entries include last and first names, value of merchandise, and dates of transactions; specific merchandise is not indicated. The dimensions of the ledger are 3 in. x 6 1/2 in. x 15 in.The name of Williamsport was in use from 1801-1845; from 1845 on this community was named Pruntytown.According to the donor, names of interest...
Dates:
ca. 1827-1832
Johnson Family Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2294
Overview
Correspondence of Johnson and allied families concerning local church matters and family news, a majority which concerns the descendants of Joseph and William Johnson, the most prominent members of the family. Joseph was the first governor of Virginia from the western part of the state. His brother, William, was the first postmaster at Bridgeport. Noteworthy is a letter to William Johnson dated November 29, 1864, from Mason Hesser a Confederate prisoner at Elmira, New York, during the Civil...
Dates:
1820-1987
Maxwell Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0010
Overview
Papers of Hu Maxwell (1860-1927), historian, editor, and author of several county histories of West Virginia, along with papers and records of other family members. There are manuscripts of fiction, verse, and local history written by Maxwell, as well as a number of his manuscripts and publications dealing with forestry which were prepared while he was a member of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Maxwell kept a diary during the years 1901-1919 while residing...
Dates:
ca. 1845-1950, 2017; Majority of material found within ca. 1845-1950