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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lawrence A. Lang, Collector, West Virginia Land Records, A&M 3833, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
West Virginia land records, including receipts for fees paid, surveys, certificates of survey, land patents, grants, correspondence and other material. Some of the records are copies rather than official documents. The records are sorted by the names of buyers and stored in envelopes. Recorded to the fronts of the envelopes is information relevant to their contents.
Counties mentioned include, but are not limited to: Barbour, Boone, Gilmer, Hardy, Jackson, Logan, Mason, Pendleton, Randolph,
Ritchie, Tucker, Wayne, Wirt, and Wyoming.
Personal names mentioned include, but are not limited to: Bennetts, Lionel F. Branson, Burgess, Silas Flanagan, Goff, Cyrus
Hopkins, Jacob Marcum, Jacob Walker, Edmund Willmoth, and Adam Wolf Jr.
Counties mentioned include, but are not limited to: Braxton, Logan, Pocahontas, Tucker, Webster, and Wyoming.
Personal names mentioned include, but are not limited to: Anderson Hatfield, Robert B. Kerr, Lambert, Isaac E. McDonald, Sylvester
Stout, and Aly Williamson.
Counties mentioned include, but are not limited to: Barbour, Hampshire, Logan, Marshall, Ritchie, Tucker, Wayne, Wirt, and
Wyoming.
Personal names include, but are not limited to: John Bowman, Benjamin Burnside, George Burnside, Robert Johnson, George J.
Mickline, John Modesitt, Abraham Smith, Isaac Parson, Hurston Spurlock, and Adam Wolf, Jr.
These records were stored in a container with a list of contents recorded on the front. The list of contents records the names
of landowners. This container is located in box 2, folder 1.
Counties mentioned include, but are not limited to: Barbour, Braxton, Cabell, Doddridge, Jackson, Logan, Mason, Nicholas,
Preston, Putnam, Randolph, Ritchie, Tyler, Upshur, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood, and Wyoming.
Personal names mentioned include, but are not limited to: Washington Berry, Isaac Caulfield, Sylvester Cook, Wesley Hammond,
Isaac Hoge, George Kilgore, James H. Logan, E. B. Lyons, Valentine Smith, and Hiram Toliver.
Some of the envelopes are empty.
These records were stored in a container with a list of contents recorded on the front. The list of contents records the names
of landowners. This container is located in box 2, folder 6.
Counties mentioned include, but are not limited to: Braxton, Calhoun, Grant, Logan, Monroe, Nicholas, and Webster.
Personal names mentioned include, but are not limited to: Alderson, Baxter, James Butcher, Carr, James McClung, M. D. Neville,
and John Synch Jr.
These records were stored in a container with a list of contents recorded on the front. The list of contents records the names
of landowners. This container is located in box 3, folder 1.
Counties mentioned include, but are not limited to: Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Logan, Mason, McDowell, Randolph, Tyler,
Wetzel, and Wyoming.
Personal names mentioned include, but are not limited to: Zachariah Bailey, E. R. Bines, William H. Browning, Richard Canada,
William Claypool, L. S. Halls, Sorenzo D. Hill, George Lynchfield Jr., Allen Millens, Wiley Philips, John Roberts, John Sprigg,
William Starcher, and John D. Sutton.
These records were stored in a container with a list of contents recorded on the front. The list of contents records the names
of landowners. This container is located in box 3, folder 4.
Counties mentioned include, but are not limited to: Boone, Greenbrier, Logan, Wetzel, and Wyoming.
Personal names mentioned include, but are not limited to: John Dingess, William Ferrells, Daniel Jarrell, Simeon Justus, David
Morgan, John W. Morgan, and William B. Sewel.