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Land.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:

Talbott-Tolbert Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1026
Overview Mainly papers of Samuel T. Tolbert, a onetime constable of Lewis County and postmaster at Frenchton, who operated a general store and acted as agent and surveyor for out-of-state landowners. Included are the papers of Zadock Lanham, J.S. Wilson, John L. Jacob, and W.C. Tolbert. There are surveys, legal papers, correspondence, and lottery certificates from Ohio and Delaware, and Democratic state and county election tickets. Correspondents include Lewis Maxwell, J.M. Bennett, and F.H....
Dates: 1784-1914 1931
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Green (1798-1881) Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1651
Overview Journal of a Tour through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, commenced Saturday, 29 July 1826, by Thomas Green of Richmond. This journal concludes on 1 April 1827, at Chillicothe. Green's western trip was for the purpose of pursuing land matters, but the journal contains notes on the social, political, and economic life of the old West. Green visited Front Royal, Harrisonburg, Warm Springs, Kanawha Falls, and the Salines of Virginia, crossed the river at Gallipolis, passed through the...
Dates: 1826-1827
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Trickett Land Grant and Tax Receipt

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2039
Overview

A land grant signed by the Governor of Virginia, Joseph Johnson in 1853 granting 47 acres in Preston County to Thomas Trickett. Also an 1858 Preston County tax receipt for Thomas Trickett with assessments for personal and real property.

Dates: 1853, 1858
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United States, Claim Agency, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1456
Overview Records of a pension, bounty land, and bounty money agency in Orange, Massachusetts, operated by Damon E. Cheney, include the War of 1812 military service rosters of the Delaware, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia militias; record of the Georgia and Florida militias in the Second Seminole War, 1835-1843; and an "Index to Militia in the Florida War; and the New York Militia, Northern Frontier Disturbance, 1837-8." Other records include applications for bounty lands under the Act of 3...
Dates: ca. 1862-1879, 1890
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Upper Monongahela Valley Planning Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3246
Overview Four items regarding the resources and development of the Upper Monongahela River area in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Includes an "Upper Monongahela Valley Association Economic and Social Objectives Progress Report" (1935-37), a letter to the Secretary of the Interior regarding a project of joint Federal-local planning for the "rehabilitation and development of the Upper Monongahela Valley" (1935), a map titled "Industrial Development in Western Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia, and...
Dates: 1924-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

U.S. Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Historic Records Survey, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0046
Overview Copies of records from each county in West Virginia gathered by the depression-era public records survey funded by the Works Progress Administration. Included are registers of births, marriages, deaths, wills, estate settlements, and land records. Transcriptions of county and circuit court minute and order books are included as well as cemetery readings and registers; church record surveys; mimeographed calendars of the papers of West Virginia governors; and American Imprint Inventory slips...
Dates: ca. 1930-1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Van Meter Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0189
Scope and Contents

Notes, bills, receipts, tax notices and scattered land papers of Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and James E. Van Meter, Hardy County, W. Va.

Dates: 1758-1886; Majority of material found within 1854-1886
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Van Meter Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0260
Scope and Contents

A list of the personal property of Isaac Van Meter, the sale price, and the persons to whom the items were sold at a sale held at Fort Pleasant on the South Branch. Henry Van Meter and Garret Van Meter are shown as administrators.

Dates: 1758
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Van Meter Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0569
Scope and Contents

Deeds, and parchment grants for land in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, 1775-1849, signed by governors of Virginia, beginning with Edmund Randolph; and one photostat account of Jacob Van Meter with Jacob and John Clower showing the cost of constructing the Van Meter home in Hampshire County, 1842-1845.

Dates: 1775-1849
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Virginia Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1257
Scope and Contents

County land tax list; ledger of Thomas Green, 1828-1874; muster rolls, Virginia Militia, 1812; index, Muster Rolls, 1812; and the Revolutionary War Bounties.

Dates: 1782-1874
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center