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    <unittitle>Talbott-Tolbert Family Papers</unittitle>
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    <abstract id="aspace_1a4d72222e383331fd1dc92799b49dbb">Mainly papers of Samuel T. Tolbert, a onetime constable of Lewis County and postmaster at Frenchton, who operated a general store and acted as agent and surveyor for out-of-state landowners. Included are the papers of Zadock Lanham, J.S. Wilson, John L. Jacob, and W.C. Tolbert. There are surveys, legal papers, correspondence, and lottery certificates from Ohio and Delaware, and Democratic state and county election tickets. Correspondents include Lewis Maxwell, J.M. Bennett, and F.H. Pierpont.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Talbott-Tolbert Family Papers, A&amp;M 1026, 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/n79041720" source="lcsh">Delaware</geogname>
    <geogname source="ingest">Lewis County.</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049197" source="lcsh">Ohio</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Country stores.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041557" source="lcsh">Elections</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053768" source="lcsh">General stores</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Surveyors and surveying.</subject>
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    <persname source="ingest">Bennett, J.M.</persname>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007156574" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Maxwell, Lewis, 1790-1862</persname>
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    <persname source="ingest">Tolbert, Samuel T.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Tolbert, W.C.</persname>
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