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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Fox Family Papers, A&M 0477, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Letters and business papers of the Fox family, centered on William and Vause Fox; there are accounts showing prices for goods and services in the first decades of the nineteenth century, including hides and leather, surveying, field labor, and weaving; items on Negroes and slavery, the Literary Society of Romney; and letters from Virginians who had taken up western lands.

Related Material

150, 471, 477

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Fox family
• Fox, Vause.
• Fox, William.
• Hampshire County (W. Va.)
• Land.
• Leather
• Literature -- Societies, etc
• Militia - Virginia 77th Regiment.
• Romney (W. Va.)
• Romney Literary Society (Romney, W. Va.)
• Slaves and slavery.
• Surveyors and surveying.