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Start Over Collection Ohio County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers Date range 1846

Records of Regimental Court of Inquiry 4th Regiment Virginia Militia Reel 87 (formerly 544), Item 340

Duplicated on OHI 244. This collection had been separated into A&M 2188. Original Abstract: "Meeting minutes, resolutions and orders for a volunteer military unit under the administrative jurisdiction and board of inquiry of the Ohio County Court. Contains routine matters such as rank, pay, fines, and parade orders. Mention is made of other units, namely the City Blues, Washington Guards, Wheeling Guards, Wheeling Riflemen, Wheeling Artillery, and Lafayette Riflemen. Officers names prominently mentioned are James Tanner, James S. Wheat, and George W. Sights."

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ohio County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers
  3. Series 1- Microfilm
  4. OHI 87- Records of Military Affairs and Roads

Records of Regimental Court of Inquiry 4th Regiment Virginia Militia Item 340

Duplicated on OHI 244. This collection had been separated into A&M 2188. Original Abstract: "Meeting minutes, resolutions and orders for a volunteer military unit under the administrative jurisdiction and board of inquiry of the Ohio County Court. Contains routine matters such as rank, pay, fines, and parade orders. Mention is made of other units, namely the City Blues, Washington Guards, Wheeling Guards, Wheeling Riflemen, Wheeling Artillery, and Lafayette Riflemen. Officers names prominently mentioned are James Tanner, James S. Wheat, and George W. Sights."

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ohio County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers
  3. Series 3- Record Books

Series 2- Paper Materials

A small part of this series includes court records that relate to enslaved and freedpeople, which have been listed here. This list may not be complete, but it includes all records that have been located so far. These records include a suit by Amos and a group of other Black people against James McMechen for freedom (1820, env. 72 C-4); a case against Lucy, a Black woman, for "unlawful migration" (1852, env. 200 C); case against Oath, an enslaved man, charged with buggery (sodomy) (1818, env. 60); against Samuel Copper for bringing enslaved people out of the Commonwealth (1835, env. 136); against William Culbertom for harboring an enslaved person (1822, Env. 81 Folder 3/3); cases charging several people with teaching free Black people to read (circa? 1835, env. 162B, 162C, and 163B); the escapes of Alfred Turpin (env. 167), Noah (169 C), Joseph Bryant (171 A), John and Daniel Jackson (171 B), Hugh Cunningham (172), Benjamin Moody (200 A), and Josiah and Martha Snowdon (225 A), enslaved persons, and of Polly, a freedwoman (169 B); a deed between John Lee and Alexander Caldwell mentioning enslaved people (env. 31-3), and a case against Joseph Bryant for "enticing negro slaves from owners," (172 C 13). There are also some records of apprenticeships.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ohio County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers

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