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Taxation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Monongalia County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates: 1774-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Land and Legal Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0701
Scope and Contents

A copy of a list of taxable property in Monongalia County, 1783, signed by J. Pendleton, Auditor, giving names and number of tithables and number of head of livestock.

Dates: 1783
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 0244
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1783-134
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0102
Overview

County court records concerning court cases and proceedings, as well as some public records, primarily tax, birth, death, and marriage records. There is also a large collection of private account books from various local businesses.

Dates: 1751-1927
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Mary Woodson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2211
Overview

Receipts for land, school, personal property, and road taxes in Kanawha and Putnam counties, 1863-1886 and 1898-1899; grade reports from the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Virginia, 1882, and from the Putnam County schools, 1904-1906; a printed souvenir list of the students and teacher at the intermediate school, Poca; two manuscript poems concerning the medical profession, 1879-1880; and other items. Index and table of contents are available in the 17th volume.

Dates: 1863-1906
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Noah Henderson (Monongalia County, W.Va.) Financial and Legal Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0787
Scope and Contents Personal papers of Noah Henderson of Monongalia County, West Virginia, consisting mainly of incoming correspondence and financial and legal documents from 1859 to 1926. Collection chiefly contains deeds, state and county tax receipts, a survey and plat, and oil and gas lease documents from the 1860s to the 1900s. Other financial documents from 1910 to 1926 relate to bank accounts and settlement of Henderson's estate after his death in 1920. Letters from relatives in the 1890s and 1900s...
Dates: 1859-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pendleton County Court Assessment Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0676
Overview

Assessment book used in Pendleton County (West) Virginia, 1797, which lists names of taxpayers and their taxable property. Also includes envelope with writing describing other assessment books of the County (undated). See Pendleton County Court Records microfilm box Pen 1 for a microfilmed copy of the book.

Dates: 1797
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pendleton County Manuscripts and Account Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2332
Overview A collection of account, record, and minute books, as well as ledgers relating to the history of Franklin and Pendleton County, West Virginia. Included are account books belonging to George Hammer (1859-1889); a minute book of the Franklin Water Works (1845-1877); a Pendleton County tax book (1826); and a book of bonds for the administrators and executors of estates from 1802 to 1820. Included are letters to Mary M. Colaw, from relatives in Pendleton County, mainly concerning family news,...
Dates: 1802-1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ralph Fairfax, Collector, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0845
Scope and Contents

A tax book of Monongalia County, 1855, and an estate appraisement of John Fairfax for personal property at the Glades, and Cheat Farm, Monongalia County. The appraisement refers to the sale of eleven enslaved Africans. There are also two lists of delinquent taxpayers; scrip from the Gladesville Furnace, 1877; and a list of the hands at Clinton (Furnace).

Dates: 1844-1877
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center