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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Fox Family Papers, A&M 0471, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers centering upon Williams and Vause Fox, Hampshire County; including indentures, patents a slave deed, return of supplies and regimental orders of the 77th Regiment of Virginia Militia, accounts for farm implements and household supplies; names mentioned include Johnson Barkelow, and William and George Calmes; the land papers bear the signatures of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Wood, and Thomas Randolph.

Related Material

150, 471, 477

Separated Material

One land deed for Johnson Barkelon and Stephen Calvin signed by President Thomas Jefferson on 20 August 1806; separated to Rare Signatures, A&M 435.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Barkelow, Johnson
• Calmes, George
• Calmes, William
• Farms and farming.
• Fox family
• Fox, Vause.
• Fox, William.
• Hampshire County (W. Va.)
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
• Literature -- Societies, etc
• Madison, James (1751-1836)
• Militia - Virginia 77th Regiment.
• Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828
• Romney (W. Va.)
• Slaves and slavery.
• Surveyors and surveying.
• Wood, James (1741-1813)