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    <abstract id="aspace_52940e4767a00a1bdcd3d6abba372220">Two hand-written land grants: one for Monongalia County dated 1791, and one for Preston County dated 1837. The Monongalia grant names "Amos Robants, assignee of Ezekiel Jones" and the Preston grant names Richard Forman.</abstract>
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    <persname source="ingest">Robants, Amos.</persname>
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