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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1845/1886" type="inclusive">1845-1886</unitdate>
    <abstract id="aspace_bb8ebb7889a666196d47a771370071fb">Letters, legal papers, and accounts of William Parker, Hampshire County, West Virginia. Included also are scattered papers of John P., Benjamin, and James Parker and Company. Letters originate from Virginia; Greene County, Illinois, 1859; and Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama, 1849. Subjects include doctors' fees; election of 1851 in Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties, and Frederick County, Virginia; prices of farm produce; and observations of Virginians newly settled in Illinois and Alabama in the middle of the nineteenth century.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William Parker Papers, A&amp;M 0156, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018761" source="lcsh">Berkeley County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82020679" source="lcsh">Hampshire County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79053746" source="lcsh">Illinois</geogname>
    <geogname source="ingest">Jefferson County.</geogname>
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    <subject source="ingest">Election of 1851.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041557" source="lcsh">Elections</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Farms and farming.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052074" source="lcsh">Frontier and pioneer life</subject>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97045249" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">James Parker and Co.</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Parker, Benjamin.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Parker, James.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Parker, John P.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Parker, William</persname>
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