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Language
English
Abstract
Records relating to the Varner (Warner, Worner) and Patterson families of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Varner records
include copies of original deeds, surveys, warrants, and patents, and focus on the lands and movements of John, Jospeh, and
Abraham Varner in Fayette, Washington, and Greene Counties in Pennsylvania, and Monongalia County, West Virginia, in the late
18th and 19th centuries. There is also a typescript timeline (1777-1830) for records regarding John Varner, manuscript genealogy
notes, and three original registered letter receipts to and from Joseph Varner in Statler Run, West Virginia. Also includes
court and land records regarding an 1870s land dispute between Abraham Varner and Jospeh Varner, a typed note about the Varner
family cemetery in Rudolph's Run in Monongalia County, and a manuscript poem by M.S. Stockdale to one of the Varners. The
Patterson records consist of copies of a survey, warrant, and patent; there is also a map of Fayette County homesteads relating
to John Patterson's land, called Pattersonia, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania in the late 18th century. The collection also
includes Doris V. Welsh's notes derived from researching 'History of Fayette County Pennsylvania' by F. Elli., and one unidentified
photograph of an oil derrick, presumably in western Pennsylvania or northern West Virginia. For additional materials related
to the Varner family, please see A&M 3899.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Doris V. Welsh, Compiler, Varner and Patterson Families Papers, A&M 3543,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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