Monongalia County - deeds and grants.

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Deed from William W. Price and wife to Levi Low, Richard Price and Samuel Webb, trustees for land on Big Indian Creek, Monongalia County, on which meeting house and school are located for use of churches and school. Specifies time when each church is to have use of meeting house.

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Includes grants for land in Monongalia County to James Calbreath, assignee of Joseph Tidball; William Austin, assignee of Thomas Laidley; Samuel Hanway; and Zackquil Morgan, signed by governors Henry Lee, James Monroe and James Barbour.

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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.

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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.

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Deeds, warrants, surveys and other legal papers from Monongalia County.

Scope and Contents Site of Morgantown given, along with boundaries and owners of land along the south side of a line running northeast for the mouth of Decker's Creek to Cheat river, and along the west side of the Monongahela River in Cass district to the Pennsylvania line; located are Jackson's iron works, site of Jackson ore digging, Pleasant Furnace, Ice's Ferry, poor house, and roads; some owners' names given are: John Davis, Thomas Evans, Jarrett, Andrew Ice, Jenkins, Jesse and William Bayles, John Tibbs,...

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A grant to John Simpson for four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County, signed by Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia.