Monongalia County (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
James Popenoe Letter (copy)
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3180
Overview
Photocopy of a letter written from the Fort Martin area of Monongalia County by James Popenoe who had visited residents at his birthplace in an effort to prove his birth in August 1777. Popenoe stood to inherit money based upon his age. The Popenoe family had come to Monongalia County from Salem, New Jersey, the native home of settlers of Salem, West Virginia.
Dates:
1820
Oliver Popenoe, Compiler, Genealogical Material Regarding Popenoe Family
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3928
Overview
Genealogical material regarding the Popenoe (Papineau, Popino, and other spellings) family and related families (including the Burris, Davis, Dent, Evans, Judy, Martin, Morgan, Prickett, Scott, and Snider families), compiled through the research of Oliver Popenoe. The Poponoe family in North America is traced back to Jean Papineau, a French Huguenot who immigrated to Massachusetts ca. 1700. His son Peter settled in what would later become Monongalia county in the 1770s. This collection...
Dates:
1911-2010, undated