J. Wise Norton, Maps from 1790s County Surveys

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West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], J. Wise Norton, Maps from 1790s County Surveys, A&M 4007, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 4 items (3 unfoldered oversize maps, 1/16 in.); (1 CD in folder, 1/4 in.) and 0.18 Gigabytes 41 .jpg files
Creator:
Norton, J. Wise
Abstract:
Three maps compiled from surveys of records in the Virginia Land Office by J. Wise Norton, examiner of land titles, Wheeling, West Virginia. Though created in the 1880s, the maps depict the counties as they were in the mid 1790s. The maps are "Copy of J. Wise Norton's Map of Adjoining Surveys. Surveyed 1795-1796 in Lee County, Virginia" (ca. 1880s); "Copy of J. Wise Norton's Map of Connected Surveys. Surveyed AD 1795-1796 as in Kanawha County, Virginia" (1880s); and "Map of Connected Surveys made in the years 1794 and 1795 in Russell and Wythe Counties, Virginia" (1887). Also includes a CD (2013) which contains digital images of the three maps, as well as images of another of Norton's maps, "Map of Connected Surveys. Surveyed AD. 1795-1796 as in Kanawha County, Virginia" (1883).
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], J. Wise Norton, Maps from 1790s County Surveys, A&M 4007, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Physical location:
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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