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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1814/1921" type="inclusive">1814-1921</unitdate>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lantz Family Papers, A&amp;M 3095, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Papers of William Lantz (b. 1810), a Blacksville, WV farmer, constable, postmaster, and general store owner, and his descendants, particularly Remembrance Lantz. Included are family and business correspondence; bills, invoices, and ledger sheets relating principally to the Lantz family's general store; and militia documents and legal papers documenting William Lantz's activities as constable, justice of the peace, and commissioner of revenue for Blacksville.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="local_LC">Blacksville (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024914" source="lcsh">Monongalia County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053768" source="lcsh">General stores</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Lantz, Remembrance.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Lantz, William.</persname>
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