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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Jackson Family of Monongalia and Preston Counties Papers, A&M 3717, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers of the Jackson family of Monongalia and Preston County, (West) Virginia, including business, financial, and legal documents.

Series 1.) Civil War Pension Records

There are pension records for Henry C. Jackson, son of Virlinda Jackson, who served in the 1st Regiment [West] Virginia Cavalry Volunteers. (2 items, 1864)

Series 2.) Business Records of Jackson and Lamb

There are also business records of Josiah Jackson and Leonard Lamb recording transactions between them and Tassey and Church, Grocers of Pittsburgh. A copy of the document dissolving their partnership is also included. This grouping also includes a letter from Breading Taylor addressed to the Cheat Iron Works concerning a standing debt. (10 items, 1833-1834)

This series also includes correspondence regarding the disposal by John Jackson (or executors) of property associated with St. John's Furnace and Hampton Forge and subsequent legal proceedings, including summons to testify. The author of these documents is unknown; each has "gave a copy to John Lyons" written at the bottom. (4 items, undated)

Series 3.) Correspondence

Collection also contains two letters from members of the allied Dixson family of Ohio, one from Ruth Dixson to "brother and sister" Josiah and Virlinda Jackson (1854), and one from J.J. Dixson to his uncle Josiah Jackson (2 items, 1864).

Series 4.) Miscellaneous Records

Includes a promissory note to John Jackson (1814); a record of debts owed by Samuel Jackson, deceased to be paid by his executors John and Samuel Jackson (1818); a copy of the will of Joseph Baily, of Dunkard Green County, Pennsylvania (1857) (the will was certified in Fayette County Pennsylvania, where James D. Jackson is shown to have lived, by evidence of the 1879 deed in this collection, albeit twenty odd years later) (1857); a deed between grantors Daniel R. Jackson and his wife Rachel G. Jackson, William F. Jackson and his wife Elizabeth, James D. Jackson and his wife Lydia, and grantees [Grover?] C. Jackson and Bell Jackson concerning the disposal of their mother Verlinda Jackson's property (1879); a survey of land (undated); a recipe (or "receipt") for making laundry soap (1852); a poem written by Daniel R. Jackson entitled "Who Will Care for Mother Now?" (undated); and a receipt from the County Court of Preston County signed by Daniel R. Jackson and Belle (Meuearl?) (likely same Bell / Belle as mentioned in 1879 deed as a grantee) (1891).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Civil War - West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry. First Regiment
• Iron furnaces and iron industry.
• Jackson family
• Jackson, Josiah.
• Monongalia County (W. Va.)