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Language
English
Abstract
A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains
accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools
and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are
early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal
papers from eighteenth century Virginia, mainly of Matthew Rankin and Thomas Rutherford who contended for property in Ohio
County. There is the thirty-eight page diary of Cleon Moore, a Confederate soldier from Charles Town. As a volunteer regiment
member he was eyewitness and participant in the siege and capture of John Brown at Harpers Ferry. His unit was again called
out prior to Virginia's secession resolution. He recounts their early maneuvering, stationing and being consolidated in the
Virginia Second Cavalry which served at the First Battle of Bull Run. The account ends with the early 1862 campaigns in the
Shenandoah Valley of General "Stonewall" Jackson. There is Civil War related material of Logan Osborne including records of
loans to the Confederate government, letters to family and friends recounting and justifying the events and cause of the Confederacy
and an 1861 January 28 broadside, entitled: "To The People of Jefferson County...", of Logan Osborne as a Unionist candidate
to the Virginia Secession Convention. Also there are early West Virginia political papers pertaining to Jefferson County such
as an attempt to move the county seat to Sheperdstown. Also included are George Shutt business letters and certificates as
a geologist; certificates from the United Daughters of the Confederacy to Mary M. Shutt; and Osborne family history, genealogy
and obituaries of descendents.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Logan Osborne Family and Business Records, A&M 2941, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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