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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">0.4 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)</extent>
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    <abstract id="aspace_01f9a32398e4feefea5a866fa931e9d0">Receipts and land records of two generations of the Weltons in Hampshire and Hardy counties, West Virginia, including papers of Job, Aaron, Archibald, and A. Archibald Welton. There is a Fairfax deed for eighty-four acres in Hampshire County in 1770, and a pocket diary of A.A. Welton, for 1880-1881, which records daily farm chores, livestock sales, and the like.</abstract>
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<p>archives and manuscripts</p>  </odd>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Welton Family Papers, A&amp;M 0806, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Separated to A&amp;M 435, Rare Signatures:</p><p>Land Grant from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to James Ryan for Land in Hampshire County, Virginia, 10 September 1778. A facsimile and transcription were left in the collection.</p>  </separatedmaterial>
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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/n84037218" source="lcsh">Hardy County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077784" source="lcsh">Livestock</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Diaries and journals.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Fairfax lands.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Farms and farming.</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Welton, A. Archibald.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Welton, Aaron.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Welton, Archibald.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Welton, Job.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004451" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Welton family</famname>
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