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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Van Meter Family Papers, A&amp;M 0569, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>189, 260, 569</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>Deeds, and parchment grants for land in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, 1775-1849, signed by governors of Virginia, beginning with Edmund Randolph; and one photostat account of Jacob Van Meter with Jacob and John Clower showing the cost of constructing the Van Meter home in Hampshire County, 1842-1845.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82020679" source="lcsh">Hampshire County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84037218" source="lcsh">Hardy County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Surveyors and surveying.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Hampshire County. Deeds</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Hardy County - Deeds and Grants.</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Van Meter, Isaac.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013013792" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Van Meter, Jacob B., 1764-1829</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Van Meter, James E.</persname>
    <famname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002122" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Van Meter family</famname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039704" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Lee, Henry, 1756-1818</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Wood, James (1741-1813)</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Clower, John</persname>
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