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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Sue Proctor Miller, Collector, Papers, A&M 0886, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Photostat copies of personal letters written in French by and concerning the early development of the Ohio Valley area. Many letters are relating to the Charles Lisez family, including letters, 1863-1865, of Charles Lisez, Jr., a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware, Maryland. The letters have not been translated.

Photostat of a map of George Washington and Albert Gallatin lands in present Jackson and Mason counties.

Related Material

866, 886

Separated Material

Map - "West Virginia-California," 1780.

Land grant map covering what is now known (1949) as Jackson County, West Virginia, bounded by portions of the Little Kanawha, Kanawha, and Elk Rivers. Gives names of land owners and number of acres granted.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Civil War -- Fort Delaware
• Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
• Land.
• Lisez, Charles Jr.
• Lisez, Charles family.
• Ohio River Valley
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
• Washington, George, 1732-1799