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United States -- History -- War of 1812

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Ray Dille Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0357
Scope and Contents Gift of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Ray Dille, lawyer, historian, and genealogist of Morgantown W.Va. This collection contains the family histories of the Dille, David Evans, and John Evans families, as well as the Ray, Stewart, McFarland, and Tennant families. Materials include five loose leaf volumes of cemetery records of Monongalia County; family records of Monongalia County, and family Bible records. Additional materials about the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church,...
Dates: ca. 1774-1939
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

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

Virginia Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1240
Scope and Contents

Microfilm include State Land Office Records; S. Bassett French, Biographical Sketches; Mott-Alston Collection of Colonial Families; Confederate Service Records of Virginia Soldiers; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Bounty Warrants; Revolutionary Pensions; Revolutionary War, Rejected Claims; Family Genealogical Notes; and List of Baptist records at the University of Richmond.

Dates: 1623-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Virginia Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1246
Scope and Contents

Church and Bible records, personal property tax lists, index to Confederate service records of Virginia soldiers, Revolutionary War public service claims, index to Revolutionary War record, Revolutionary War pension and claim [indices], index cards to Virginia legislative petitions, and index to muster rolls of the Virginia militia in the War of 1812.

Dates: 1783-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

William A. Moreland, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1973
Overview Papers of Alexander Smith and George W. Brown. The Smith papers are letters and receipts, 1794-1814, and include a letter from N. Suter commenting on a naval battle of the War of 1812, current prices, government, and business conditions and receipts for the payment for slaves. The Brown letters, 1870-1886, concern a gift to West Virginia University, marriage, and payment of land taxes. Correspondents or persons mentioned include Alexander Martin and John W. Mason. Receipts, 1881-1894, are...
Dates: 1794-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center