Monongalia County (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Meredith Kiger, Collector, Shuttlesworth Family Documents and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3601
Overview
Digital copies of paper documents regarding the Shuttlesworth family of Virginia.Includes:
1) Land grant to Philip Shuttlesworth of 537 acres in Monongalia County; signed by Virginia Governor James Wood (3-7-1798);
2) Plat of 205 acres of land from Patrick, Edward, and John Kearns to John Austin; surveyed by Sam Hanway (8-10-1816);
3) Bond of Samuel and Juliet Muckleray to Joseph Shuttlesworth (12-19-1828);
4) Summons of Joseph, John, and Archibald Shuttlesworth...
Dates:
1798-1849, undated
Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents
Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates:
1859-1964