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Alex Welch Survey Papers 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (2 folders)

Welch, Alex
This collection includes several papers of Alex Welch's survey business, 1786-1801. Surveys were done for William Hunter Cavendish, Adonijah Matthews, Warder, Parker, and Company and William Morrow. The geographical locations include several places in Greenbrier and Kanawha counties in Virginia.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Belden, Walker & Company, Greenbrier County General Store, Records 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 2 in.

Belden, Walker & Company. Greenbrier County General Store
Papers and ledger of a Greenbrier Co. general store containing ledger entries for cloth, clothing, hardware and food items. The papers include inventories, receipts, contracts, correspondence and legal documents that pertain mostly to the indebtedness incurred by the company. Names mentioned are Hezekiah Belden, William Pettis, Edwin Porter, Samuel Price, Cyrus Walker, and Ezra Walker.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Blue Sulphur Springs Land Survey 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 page

Blue Sulphur Springs
A land survey of the property of the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort of Greenbrier County including land (24 acres), cabins, dining house and stables. Conducted by David Hanna, the survey was ordered by the Greenbrier County Superior Court in order to settle a transaction dispute regarding the sale of the property by Nancy Patterson and the heirs of James Patterson to Joseph Martin and Charles Carraway.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

County Highway Maps for West Virginia 33.9 Linear Feet 33 ft. 11 in. (11 roll storage boxes, 37 in. each)

West Virginia. State Road Commission

Highway maps for the 55 counties of West Virginia created in 1937. They are in two tones (blue on white), in varying dimensions (including items in the range of 36 in. x 36 in. to 36 in. x 58 in., etc.), and scaled to 1 inch equaling 1 mile. Features indicated on the maps include: roads (US, primary state roads, secondary state roads); state, county, district, and corporate lines; railroads; streams; parks and forests; highway bridges; county seats; cities and villages; lodges; farms; houses; businesses; oil and gas wells; commercial airfields; schools; churches; mines; power plants; factories; hotels; and other information.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dickson Family Papers 2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)
The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

E.R. Fletcher Papers 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 folder

Fletcher, E. R.
Miscellaneous papers of E.R. Fletcher of Lewisburg, WV. Includes letters, newspaper clippings, magazines, and photographs.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Greenbrier County Accounting Records 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 3 in. (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.)

Greenbrier County
One box of various papers such as receipts, diaries, account books, loan slips, etc. from a store or money lender, located in Greenbrier County, WV. Includes a small daily calendar for 1858, a small book listing small loan accounts, 1846; and a small account book for 1858. See the processing notes for a listing of names mentioned on the receipts and bills.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Greenbrier County Formation Petition 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in.

Greenbrier County
A 12 x 20 facsimile of the petition for the formation of Greenbrier County, handwritten by John Stewart who is considered the "Father of Greenbrier County". The petition, signed by 75 settlers who were heads of households, requested that the state of Virginia form a new county to facilitate the handling of their land claims in a court of local jurisdiction. It cites the area of land, size of population, frontier conditions, and rugged terrain as a justification for the new county of Greenbrier.
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Greenbrier County Land Grant 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 item

Greenbrier County
Original land deed signed by Beverley Randolph, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 9 July 1787. The deed designates four thousand acres, in Greenbrier County, Virginia on the waters of the Gauley River to Jeremiah Warder, Jeremiah Parker and Richard Parker. The original seal of Virginia is inscribed on this deed. Original date of deed-November 28, 1781.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Greenbrier County, West Virginia Miscellaneous Papers 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 15 items (1 folder)

Miscellaneous records of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Includes: 1) financial records (8 items, 1870-1921) such as receipts from various businesses including The Thomas Grocery Company (Lewisburg, West Virginia) (1916), Mason Bell (Lewisburg, West Virginia) (1921), and A.G. Handly and Company (a general store in Meadow Bluff, West Virginia) (1870), among others; 2) personal and business letters (4 items, 1895-1910) between Greenbrier County residents and others; and 3) legal papers (3 items), including a Greenbrier County Court document regarding the payment of a state license tax by John H. McPherson (1886), and documents regarding the estates of Joseph McMillion (1857) and Cavendish Knight (1870). Personal names throughout the collection include John C. Dice, John H. McPherson, James K. McMillion, Joseph McMillion, Maggie L. McMillion, R.W. Montague, and E.R. Skaggs.
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