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    <abstract id="aspace_2baa1dd241de3cab093734eac8ff5c9e">The land and legal papers of a Tucker and Randolph County family. Included are power of attorney documents between Jerome Harper of British Columbia and Ezekial Harper of Tucker County. There is also a note of a land survey done for Albert Gallatin. Other names mentioned are Jonathan W. Harper, David Goff and Wyatt J. Ferguson.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Harper Family Papers, A&amp;M 3090, 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/n79096746" source="lcsh">Tucker County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82067445" source="lcsh">Randolph County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Surveyors and surveying.</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50015401" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Harper, Jonathan W.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Harper, Ezekial.</persname>
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    <persname source="ingest">Ferguson, Wyatt J.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059030" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Harper family</famname>
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