Petition to form Harrison County, West Virginia

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Forms: Xerox copies, Ms. [manuscript] Petition; 1 item original 2 pp. [pages] (copied on 5 pp.)

Persons: Family names included in list of subscribers to the petition:

Blair, Blunt, Booth, Baker, Barker, Boyer, Barkley, Bucklin (?), Board, Cane, Crouch, Carne, Cochron [sic], Coningham-Cunnaham [sic], Carpenter, Childers, Canscoyle, Currants, Casaday, Clever-Cleaver, Cutrite [sic], Cotral [sic], Davison, Duglas [sic], Delegas, Dodson, Everman, Gibson, Gregory, Heasting [sic], Hanaman, Hickman, Husteg [sic]-Husteg (?), Hamilton, Huston, James, Jonas, Koon (Coon), King, Lambert, Lovel, Louther, Merrit, More [sic], McClane, Morefield, Nutter, Owens, O'Brian, Pedro, Philips, Price, Peidmore [sic], Parks, Parsons, Richards, Reed, Ryan, Riffle, Richardson, Shaver, Smith, Skidmore, Stalnaker, Sanderson, Simms, Springstone, Snider, Stout, Taylor, Thomas, Tucker, Thomson, Westfall, White, Wilson, Wools, Williams, Wilkeson, Wickwire, Webb, Yeokim [sic]. Cross, Gooden, Grundey, Hellen, Murphey, Merifield, Mathew, Woolf, Wire [Wine?]

Places: Tygart Valley Settlement. West Fork of the Monongahela, and the Buckhannon Creek [sic] Settlements. [Area of original Harrison County; later possible present areas of Randolph, Lewis, Barbour and Upshur counties]

Subjects: County Formation [Harrison Co. [County]] On information that petitions had been presented to the General Assembly to divide the "old" part of Augusta Co. [County], into smaller counties the 172 signers of the petition, residents of the named Settlements, ask that their area should not be joined any county east of the Alleghenys, on the waters of the James R. [River], or South Branch of the Potomac R. [River], or to the Monongalia County. The subscribers considered they were able to erect and support the necessary public buildings for a county town for the area including the Settlement named, Condition of roads, distance necessary to travel, and uninhabited and arduous route of travel were included in reasons given showing the need of a new county.

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