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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Watson Family Papers, A&M 1815, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills, notes (1782-1862), manuscript and printed forms; 51 miscellaneous manuscript and printed forms (1790-1902), including inventories of estates, sale bills, notes on legal matters with respect to property, court proceedings, etc.; and one manuscript constable's receipt book of Campbell and Watson.

Papers also concern land and business transactions in Marion, Harrison, Randolph and Barbour counties.

Related Material

630, 1815, 1949

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Agriculture
• Barbour County (W. Va.)
• Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company
• Harrison County (W. Va.)
• Land.
• Marion County (W. Va.)
• Morgantown (W. Va.)
• Randolph County (W. Va.)
• Slaves and slavery.
• Watson family
• Watson, Benjamin H.
• Watson, Henry.
• Watson, James G.
• Watson, James O.
• Watson, Rebecca D.
• Watson, Thomas.
• Wheeling (W. Va.)