Kanawha County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers

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Location of collection:: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center

West Virginia University

P.O. Box 6069

1549 University Avenue

Morgantown, WV 26506

Contact for questions and access:: POC: Lori Hostuttler

Email: lori.hostuttler@mail.wvu.edu

Phone: (304) 293-3536

Web: wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu

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For materials in boxes 1-296 and most record books, researchers should use microfilm. Boxes 297-541 and items 96, 87, 88, and 83 have not been microfilmed, but are open for research.

All microfilm, item 201 (SC folders 1 and 2), and noted materials formerly in boxes 46, 68, and 256 (now in oversize folders 1 and 2) are stored on-site. All other original material is stored offsite; please make an appointment prior to visiting.

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Preferred citation:: [Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Kanawha County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers, A&M 0145, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:: 274.85 Linear Feet Summary: 274 ft. 10 in. (541 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 records carton, 15 in.); (2 ledgers, 1.5 in.); (2 oversize folders, 4 items); (2 folders, .5 in.); (290 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each); (83 reels of microfilm, .75 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 record storage box, 3.5 in.)
Creator:: Kanawha County Court (Kanawha County, W. Va.)
Abstract:: County court records consisting primarily of court case papers, related court record books (dockets, execution books, fee books, witness books, etc.), and public records concerning a variety of topics including land records, schools, and marriages. There are also a few private account books relating to various local industries, including salt, mining, sawmills, steamboats, and general stores.
Language:: English .
Preferred citation:: [Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Kanawha County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers, A&M 0145, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

County court records consisting primarily of court case papers, related court record books (dockets, execution books, fee books, witness books, etc.), and public records concerning a variety of topics including land records, schools, and marriages. There are also a few private account books relating to various local industries, including salt, mining, sawmills, steamboats, and general stores.

Series 1-Microfilm consists of 373 reels of microfilm. The first 271 reels, KAN 1-271, are copies of the first 296 boxes of paper materials (see series 2). Reels KAN 272-KAN 290 are copies of most of the record books in the collection (see series 3), excluding items 83, 87, 88 and 96. The remainder of the reels are copies of the card index to this collection, an extensive alphabetical, chronological, and subject index to the paper materials in Series 2.

Series 2-Paper Materials, consists of 541 boxes of county court records, primarily case papers. Boxes 297-541 have not been microfilmed. This collection also includes an 1869 Reward Poster for Ed Sullivan (formerly in Box 256, env. 1869-35, now in oversize folder 1) and 4 bank notes for the "Bank of the Union" (Box 171, env. 1851-1). See Series 1, reels KAN 358-373, the subject index, for more information on what kind of topics appear in the paper materials. Highlights of Series 2 include records of enslavement, military affairs, the jail, early land, and other miscellaneous records of note, as well as many records of the Ruffner Family. See Series 2 scope and content note for more details.

There is one item, a deed from Priddy Nelson to Samuel T. Washington (1827-17) that is not filmed. There is instead a note about 4-H members. The originals for these materials are located on site.

This is a typescript copy of item 46 on KAN 289

Also includes Monthly Docket, 1843-1847

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Concerning cloth, dry goods, grocery, notions, hardware, drugs, furniture, tailoring, and estate

This item is an index to Item #40, Slack's Fee Book

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Has the name "Dry Den's"

Also includes the Circuit Superior Court Process book for 1831

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Topics include Bounty for Volunteers; Overseers of Poor Allowance; Ordinance concerning sale of liquor; Election Returns for election held 27 October 1864; Township Boundaries; Roads; Bridges, and D. W. Polsley, Clerk.

Weather Reports also given

Subjects include: Accounts, Amercement, Appeals, Assumit, Attatchement, Caveat, Chancery, Condemnation

Subjects include: Contract or Covenant (Breach of), Costs, Detainer (Unlawful), Detinue

Subjects include: Detinue, Distress, Divorce (Chancery), Dower Rights (Chancery), Ejectment, Execution, FIFA (1840)

Subjects include: FIFA (-1926), Forceible Entry, Foreclosure (Chancery), F.C. Bond, Fraud (Chancery), Freedom, Guardian (Chancery), Habeas Corpus, Injunction (Chancery), Interpleader (Chancery), Libel, Miscellaneous and Unclassified, Mandamus, Prohibition, Warrants, Motion for Judgement, New Trustees, Non-Suit, Partition, Petition (Chancery), Promise (Breach of ), Quia Timet, Recievership (Chancery), Replevin, Scire Facias (sometimes abbreviated SciFa), Slander, Specific Performance (Chancery), Tort

Subjects include: Trespass, TOC

Subjects include: TOC, Writ of Right, Debt

Subjects include: Debt

Subjects include: Debt Attatchment (-1931); Subjects for Criminal Records include: Abortion, Adultery, Arson, Assault, Assault and Battery, Assault (Felonius), Bad Check, Bastardy, Bigamy, Board Bill, Brandishing Deadly Weapons, Breaking and Entering, Bribery, Buggery (also known as sodomy), Burglery, Cohabitation, Concealed Weapons, Conspiracy

Subjects include: Contempt, Counterfeiting, Cruelty to Animals, Cutting and Shooting, Deadly Weapons, Delinquency, Desertion, Destruction of property, Disorderly Conduct, Disturbing Public Assembly, Drunkenness, Election Law Violations, Embezzlement, Escape, Estates, Ferries, Extortion, Failure to Vote, False Pretense, Felony, Felony Misc., Fines, Forgery, Fornification, Fraternal Organizations, Fraud, Gambling or Gaming, Game and Fish Law, Genealogy, Guardians, Horse Racing, Horse stealing, Indentures, Indians, Industries, Ill Fame (House of, also known as brothels), Incorrigible, Intoxication, Inquest, Insanity, Jail Breaking, Kidnapping, Killing Poisoning Livestock, Larceny

Subjects include: Truancy, Accounts, Administrators and executors, Agreements, Apprentices, Assessors, Assignments, Attorneys, Bills of Sale, Bonds, Boundaries, Bridges, Cemeteries, Certificates, Churches, Clerks of Court, Commissioners, Constables, Corporations Coroners, Courts, Court House and Jail, Dams, Deeds, Deeds of Trust, Deeds (Misc.), Delinquents, Elections, Insolvent Debtors, Jails or Jailors, Juries, Justices, Lands

Subjects include: Leases, Legislation, Levy, Liens, Liquors, Marriages

Subjects include: Marriages, Military Affairs, Miscellaneous, Natural Resources (Misc.), Natural Resources (Coal, Land, Oil and Gas, Timber, Salt), Naturalization, Navigation, "Negroes," Notary, Notes, Oaths, Ordinaries, Orphans, Petitions, Patents, Poor, Prices, Prison Bounds, Private Entertainment (House of), Public Health, Public officials, Public Utilities, Reciepts, Roads, Scalps, Schedules, Schools, Settlements, Sheep, Sheriff, Special Interest, Supervisors, Surveys and Plats, Surveyors, Taxes, Testimony, Trustees, Vital Statistics, Wills, Witnesses

Series 2-Paper Materials, consists of 541 boxes of county court records, primarily case papers. Boxes 297-541 have not been microfilmed. This collection also includes an 1869 Reward Poster for Ed Sullivan (oversize folder 1) and 4 bank notes for the "Bank of the Union" (Box 171, env. 1851-1). For this series, the papers are sorted into envelopes, which are arranged chronologically. The envelopes are labeled with the year followed by the envelope number (ex. 1804-2 would be envelope 2 of the records for 1804). Envelopes may also indicate the level of court (i.e., County Court, Circuit Court, etc.).

Highlights of enslaved records include: case in which Samuel Robinson was illegally taken to Kentucky and sold while his suit for freedom was pending (1812-2); petition for a patrol to protect against "riotous and intoxicated assemblages of negroes" (undated-4); petition of Liston Crewitt for freedom "by virtue of a free father and a mother purchased by the father" (1847-67); John is convicted to hang for murder, reprieved by Governor Smith and ordered to be sold and transported "beyond the limits of the United States" (1848-2, see 1848-); Public sale of enslaved people (1854-).

Highlights concerning the Civil War include: oath of allegiance (1864-3); opinion on the case of an attorney barred from practicing due to Confederate service (1865-, and 1865-22); suit resulting from Jefferson Davis's proclamation of Martial Law in 1862 (1864-14, see also a record pertaining to Apollus Ward, "free negro," 1824-39); an estate case in which Mary A. Rock was "reported to be in sympathy with the Southern Rebellion or the so called Confederate States" (1864-11); newspaper clipping addressed to "Slave Holding Virginia" (get year/location, was 1844). Other miscellaneous military record highlights include: charged under War Measure of 1918 (1918-2); encouraging men to enlist for defense of the colony (1754-); land grants for military service according to Proclamation of 1763 (1779-, 1780-); land grant from Thomas Jefferson for military service (1779-1); letter concerning the "Affair at Oswego" (1814-); factors responsible for the Philippine War (1899-27); copy of grant to Colonel George Washington by warrant issued by Lord Dunmore (1784-).

Report on the conditions of the county jail (18--, see 1809-2); conditions of 10-year sentence of solitary confinement for passing one counterfeit $20 (1835-); petition concerning "three persons taken from jail and lynched" (1876-10, see case of Rufus Estep, 1876-10).

Early land highlights include deed from George Clendenen and wife to Joseph Ruffner Sr. for land that was the site of the first settlement of Charleston (1796-1); Report of assessable lands (1797-); land owned by George and Martha Washington (1812-, 1812-1).

Other highlights include the fraternal orders Abraham Encampment #20 I.O.O.F. in Brownstown (1870-1) and Grande Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows (1872-3); a speech on family history by Hon. Jones Detwiler read at the Yost Family Reunion (1898-24); a contract to explore for coal, payment to be made with salt (1822-); employment of John Tyre to work on road and provide deer meat and skins to other laborers (1797-); four bank notes from the Bank of the Union (1851-1); a deposition concerned with "war with Indians" (1782); Prescription of "Rx 1 oz. Laudanum- Pill, Garlick- Kill or cure" to a patient who died (1828-); appropriation for $1000 for control of Venereal Diseases (1920-2).

Two items from this collection, located in envelope 1822-1, were formerly A&M 1542. The abstract for this collection was: "Two deeds from William D. Taylor U. S. Tax Collector, to John Peck for two tracts of land in Kanawha County, sold for non-payment of taxes, containing twenty-one, and forty one thousand acres, assessed in the name of David Miller and Co.; Isaac Lloyd and H. Sharp."

These materials are now located in oversize folder 1.

Two land deeds which were originally located in envelope 1822-1. These items were formerly A&M 1542, the original abstract for which was: "Two deeds from William D. Taylor U. S. Tax Collector, to John Peck for two tracts of land in Kanawha County, sold for non-payment of taxes, containing twenty-one, and forty one thousand acres, assessed in the name of David Miller and Co.; Isaac Lloyd and H. Sharp."

One item from this collection, deed from Nelson Priddy to Samuel T. Washington et al., was originally located in env. 1827-17. There is no microfilm of this item, instead there is a scan of a document titled "Outstanding 4-5 Club Members."

The original item is now located in Oversize Folder 2.

This item was separated from envelope 1827-17 in box 68.

The 1869 Reward poster for Ed Sullivan from envelope 1869-35 is now located in oversize folder 1.

This item was originally found in envelope 1869-35 of box 256.

Item is a reward poster offering $30 reward for the apprehension of "Atolerably tall, slim white man about 25 or 30 years of age, with light, short hair, no whiskers, attempted robbery, and the murder of my wife..."

Series 3-Record Books, consists of 18 original copies of record books. Apart from court records, there are a few private records of local businesses, including mining companies, a sawmill, and a steam ship. Item 91, a private ledger of a steamboat, has water damage, and the writing is very faint.

Concerning cloth, dry goods, grocery, notions, hardware, drugs, furniture, tailoring, and estate (last one might be something else, abbreviated as "est."

This item was formerly A&M 0058.

This item was formerly A&M 3679. Original abstract: "Records of the Board of School Commissioners of Kanawha County, Virginia including minutes, financial records, and other material. The records regard topics such as the purchase of books for poor students, children's tuition, allowance for the Boad members, and other funding issues. Board members include Reverend Mark W. Calhoun, David Ruffner, John P. Turner, and Alexander W. Quamen."

Acquisition information:

Gift from Kanawha County Court, 1938.

Item 200, Typed Transcript of Minute Book #46, is a gift of Dr. Roy Bird Cook, 1939.

Processing information:

Beginning with reel KAN 188, the title cards incorrectly identify the box numbers where the originals can be found. All of the envelope numbers are correct; box numbers should be disregarded. To identify the correct box number, see the contents list for this collection.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into three series: Microfilm, Paper Materials, and Record Books. For Series 2-Paper Materials, the papers are sorted into envelopes, which are arranged chronologically. The envelopes are labeled with the year followed by the envelope number (ex. 1804-2 would be envelope 2 of the records for 1804). Envelopes may also indicate the level of court (i.e. County Court, Circuit Court, etc.).

Physical location:

West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/

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