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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Fox Family Papers, A&amp;M 0477, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>150, 471, 477</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Letters and business papers of the Fox family, centered on William and Vause Fox; there are accounts showing prices for goods and services in the first decades of the nineteenth century, including hides and leather, surveying, field labor, and weaving; items on Negroes and slavery, the Literary Society of Romney; and letters from Virginians who had taken up western lands.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82020679" source="lcsh">Hampshire County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81114511" source="lcsh">Romney (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber=" http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000413" source="lcsh">Account books</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077527" source="lcsh">Literature -- Societies, etc</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Militia - Virginia 77th Regiment.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Slaves and slavery.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Surveyors and surveying.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Leather</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Romney Literary Society  (Romney, W. Va.)</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Fox, Vause.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Fox, William.</persname>
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