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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Deakins Family Papers, A&amp;M 0624, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>197, 624</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Additional Deakins family papers, consisting of correspondence, bond of conveyance, deeds, surveys and plats. [ALS] to Colonel Francis Deakin from John Compton, 1793, relative to surveys made by John Compton in 1792; bond of conveyance for land in Randolph County owned by Deakins heirs, 1809; five deeds for land owned by the Deakins family in Randolph and Preston counties W. Va., 1808-1885; 1848 deed from Francis Deakins to Northwestern Turnpike Co.; seven surveys and plats for lands in Preston, Tucker, Harrison and Upshur counties, largely owned by the Deakins family, 1788-1881.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063919" source="lcsh">Morgantown (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032203" source="lcsh">Preston County (W. Va.)</geogname>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79096746" source="lcsh">Tucker County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81090068" source="lcsh">Upshur County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Surveyors and surveying.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Land records and papers.</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Deakins, Francis.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036072" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Deakins family</famname>
    <persname source="ingest">Compton, John</persname>
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