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Justices of the peace

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Grant County Justice Dockets, Case Book of Henry Feaster

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0358
Scope and Contents

Case book of Henry Feaster, Justice of the Peace of Grant Township in Grant County for years, 1870-1873.

Dates: 1870-1873

Marshall County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1672
Overview County and circuit clerks records, arranged chronologically. Records for the years 1835-1857, include bonds of ministers, tavern operators, ordinaries, ferries, and county officials; estate settlements; records pertaining to road, bridge, and public building; records of the overseer of the poor; school commissioners' and surveyors' appointments; and lists of county officials. Records for 1863-1874 include county supervisors' records; records of the Fairmont and Wheeling Turnpike; and muster...
Dates: 1831-1948

Mason Mathews, Attorney, Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3115
Overview

The 24 letters are addressed to Mason Mathews, a Lewisburg attorney and father of Governor Henry Mason Mathews and cover the years 1873 until his death in 1878. Another letter to Mathews daughter, Sallie Patton is incomplete. One deed, dated 1836, is witnessed by Mathews as a justice of the peace. Frequent correspondents include: John Echols, John W. Johnston, Walter N. Johnston, and Howard Shriver.

Dates: 1836-1886

Moses Farnsworth Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0771
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, receipts, tax receipts, itemized accounts, agreements, summons, certificates of assessment, an inventory of an estate, witness certificates, a list of witnesses, a transcript of court notes, and other business papers of Moses Farnsworth, a Justice of the Peace of the Troy District, Gilmer County, W.Va.

Dates: 1821-1899

William J. Flanagan (b.1838) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0780
Scope and Contents

The records of William J. Flanagan, a Justice of the Peace living in Tucker County, West Virginia, including promissory notes, tax receipts, bills, a release of lien, itemized accounts, grocery orders, surveys and plats, letters, deeds, court orders, summons, agreements, sworn statements, notices, executions, orders to pay, and other miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1857-1910; 1941

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates: 1743-1882