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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Records and Manuscript regarding Early History of Aurora, West Virginia, A&amp;M 0906, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Deed for 800 acres on Foleys Meadows in Monongalia County, to Thomas James Goff, June 25 1787; tax receipts of 1829 and 1843 for Thomas and James S. Watson; a bill of goods of Stephens, Miller &amp; Co., Baltimore, 3 May 1865, to Messrs. Wotring Co., Aurora, W.Va.; a manuscript plat for unidentified land.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <persname source="ingest">Peter, Martin Luther.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Watson, James S.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Watson, Thomas.</persname>
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