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    <abstract id="aspace_4f7f1b428e4d38bb17541c9e4fb92b1e">Copies of two surveys and plats, 1783 and 1784, for 999 acres in Wood Co. and 3,937 acres in Monongalia Co.; surveyed for Mark Harden and William Tilton. A manuscript deed, 1801, from Anthony Gholson of Botetourt CO. Va., for his interest in 28,627 acres of land located in Kanawha Co. A manuscript affidavit of Willima Brannum, Cabell Co. 1811, concerning driving hogs from Ky. to Va. A grade report for Mary C. Stribling of Pleasant and circular of the Steubenville [Ohio] Female Seminary, 1844; The circular comments on school facilities, tuition, and boarding charges. one Page from a manuscript Journal, 1856, of John J. Davis giving information on his beginning as a lawyer in Harrison County and Comments on his accomplishments in his first year of his practice. see processing notes for additional names appearing on these papers.</abstract>
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