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    <unittitle>Davis Family Papers</unittitle>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">0.29 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 3 1/2 in. (2 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)</extent>
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    <abstract id="aspace_fe3a5b87b6f759c3e4fcd86e57139e9a">Personal and business papers of Isaac, Albert, and Silas R. Davis, of Ohio and Marshall counties, West Virginia. Includes estate settlements, genealogical data, justice of the peace docket and broadsides. There is a Civil War loyalty oath for J.N. Keller, a War of 1812 discharge for Thomas Moore and an 1844 presidential campaign broadside for the Whig candidate Henry Clay.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Davis Family Papers, A&amp;M 0140, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017011" source="lcsh">Broadsides.</subject>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205" source="lcsh">United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Election of 1844.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Estate settlements.</subject>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50041909" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Clay, Henry, 1777-1852</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Davis, Albert.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Davis, Isaac.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Davis, Silas R.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Keller, J.N.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Moore, Thomas.</persname>
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