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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">169.42 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">169 ft., 5 in. (4 record cartons, 15 in. each; 376 document cases, 5 in. each; 33 document cases, 2.5 in. each; 6 microfilm boxes, 1.75 in. each)</extent>
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    <abstract id="aspace_3309b7cfbd73465991ab0c23a8d8c78b">Records of the Harrison County court, including the first land entry book for the county (1784-1799), four court minute books (1797-1805).</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Harrison County Court Records, A&amp;M 1827, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Civil War Secession Amendment Poll Books of 1861 were separated and transferred to A&amp;M 3522, "Harrison County Court Records. Civil War Secession Amendment Poll Books".</p><p>Two plats of Downtown Clarksburg (1822) were separated to A&amp;M 4165, Harrison County Court Records. Two Plats of Downtown Clarksburg.</p><p>Copy of a survey dated 1785 for 400 acres of land in Monongalia County claimed by Robison Lucas (dated ca. 1812-1818) was separated to A&amp;M 4166, Harrison County Court Records. Survey for Land in Monongalia County.</p><p>Harrison County Court Records, Pay Abstract for Scouts to Defend Harrison County, separated to A&amp;M 4105.</p><p>Harrison County Court Records, Estate Record for William Haymond, separated to A&amp;M 4188.</p><p>Harrison County Court Records, Case Involving John Hacker, separated to A&amp;M 4240.</p>  </separatedmaterial>
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    <subject source="ingest">Politics - Secession of Virginia.</subject>
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