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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:

Logan Osborne Family and Business Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2941
Overview A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Dates: 1761-1982

Luke Wilcox (1795-1854) Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2015
Overview

Diary of Luke Wilcox, a Kanawha County farmer, merchant, salt well and furnace owner and operator, written in memorandum form except for scattered entries giving more information on specific subjects, such as the weather, churches and ministers, farm operation, travel, salt wells and furnaces, slaves, names of personal and business correspondents, coal, and land purchases. There is also an addendum regarding the Wilcox family bible. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1843-1854; 1795-1879

Lyman Stedman, Farmer and Politician, Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2042
Overview

Diary of Lyman Stedman (1824-1916), a farmer and former member of the House of Delegates, 1877, from Brown's Island, Hancock County. Entries concern farm operation, Republican political activities on the district and county level, comments on state and national organizations, floods on the Ohio River, steamboat and barge traffic, Hopedale School, Methodist Episcopal Church, railroad travel, circuses and fairs, taxes and land valuations, and Memorial Day.

Dates: 1880-1885

McCoy Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0558
Overview Business correspondence and papers, including land grants and deeds, 1761-1881, surveys, wills, and account books of William McCoy, Sr. and Jr., of Pendleton County. There are papers on the administration of estates; management of property in Mercer, Pendleton, and Randolph counties, and in Augusta and Highland counties, Virginia, for absentee owners; and on farm operations. There is material on the Central Bank of Virginia at Staunton; the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike Company; and...
Dates: 1761-1903

Monongalia and Harrison Counties Surveys

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0699
Overview Two manuscript volumes containing surveyors' field notes for Harrison County, and copies of Monongalia County surveys, compiled by members of the Haymond family. These notes also contain: information concerning acreage cleared, location and type of construction of the homes of some early residents of Harrison County; dates of patents and names of those persons to whom patents were issued; street courses and survey of the corporation of Clarksburg, 1835; and names of members of a survey...
Dates: 1795-1796, 1816, 1834-1836, 1843, 1903

Monongalia Building and Loan Association Files

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2339
Overview

General correspondence files which relate to the granting and collection of mortgage loans and sales of foreclosed property in Morgantown.

Dates: 1944-1955

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

Monongalia County, Land and Legal Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1644
Scope and Contents

Monongalia land grants, 1784-1841. See inventory sheet for a list of grantees and assignees. The collection also includes a few grants for Montgomery County.

Dates: 1784-1841

Monongalia County Land and Legal Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0243
Scope and Contents

Deeds, warrants, surveys, inventory of estate of Thomas Dell, Chapter County, Pennsylvania, 1750, and a surveyor's field book; material on Albert Gallatin's Monongalia County lands included.

Dates: 1750-1827

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