{"title":"West Virginia: Brooke County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"101-n0413","title":"History of the Pan-Handle; Being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis extensive work opens with a discussion of American history which touches on discoverers; Indians, Indian nations, and Indian wars; notable historical figures such as George Washington; significant battles; letters and journals; and much more. The bulk of the book is divided into sections devoted to each of the four counties found in West Virginia's pan-handle: Ohio (with a separate section for Wheeling City), Brooke, Marshall and Hancock. The authors have \"endeavored to make the history of each town and village after its organization up to present date complete in itself, without too much recapitulation\" and \"trace the method of the change, in a concise, unpretentious way: how and by whom the wilderness has been changed to the garden, the log cabin to the mansion, the track through the forest and the lone postal rider to the iron rail, fast mail, and electric wire with its lightning messenger,—the wild lands of the red man to the homes and industries of the white.\" The authors have \"garnered from every available source (in many cases a mere sentence only), confining ourselves so far as possible to original material, depending largely upon archives, documents, records, the memories of old settlers, and those whose lives and associations have made them familiar with the subjects portrayed.\" Numerous illustrations of people and places, a map of the Pan Handle, and a map of DeCeloron's expedition augment the narrative. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. H. Newton, G. G. Nichols and A. G. Sprankle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1879, 1990), 2011, 7.5\" x 10.5\", paper, index, 635 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556134135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-N0413\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":166033719312,"sku":"101-N0413","price":66.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-n0413.png?v=1758818531"},{"product_id":"101-s0534","title":"Brooke County, Virginia\/West Virginia Licenses and Marriages, 1797-1874","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe area that would become Brooke County, West Virginia, was settled about 1744. It was created from Ohio County, Virginia, in May 1797, and became Brooke County, West Virginia, on June 20, 1863, when the new state of West Virginia was formed. Brooke County today is located between Hancock County and Ohio County in the panhandle of West Virginia. Hancock County, Virginia, (created January 15, 1848) was originally part of Brooke County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBecause of its location in the panhandle of West Virginia, Brooke County borders Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Ohio River. Many early travelers went west and south by way of the Ohio River, primarily to settle in Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. Records covered in this work are from the county clerks' Registers of Marriages and Marriage Licenses, listing over 5,000 persons: brides and grooms, parents, and ministers. Information in this alphabetically arranged work includes: bride and groom, date of marriage (or marriage license), state, marriage official (or recorder in the case of licenses), and record location. Records for 1853-1874 also include information such as age of bride and groom; whether single, widowed or divorced; place of marriage; place of birth; residence; occupation of the groom; religious denomination; and any remarks. There is an index for parents and other persons given for 1853-1874 records, and colored marriages are also given for these years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMs. Sherman's book is based on sixty-six years (1797-1863) of Brooke County, Virginia, and twelve years (1863-1874) of Brooke County, West Virginia, marriage history. Additional sections include names of county clerks, ministers and their denominations, churches, and towns, districts, and place names of Brooke and Hancock Counties. A location map and a full name index are included.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRenee Britt Sherman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1991), 2009, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 350 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556135347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-S0534\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":668524838928,"sku":"101-S0534","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-s0534.png?v=1727801404"},{"product_id":"107-vd11","title":"Brooke County, [West] Virginia 1815 Directory of Landowners","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1782, the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county and independent city an enumeration of land and certain personal property. These early land tax laws required a tax commissioner in each district of a county to record a list of the names of persons owning land or town lots, the quantity of land owned and its value, and the amount of tax owed. By 1813, a brief geographic description (usually citing an adjacent stream, road, or other landmark) was required; in 1814, the distance and direction from the courthouse for each parcel was also added to the tax rolls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe present work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in each county and independent city, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the said property. We have not included the number of acres, taxes assessed, or any transactions between landowners which may have been noted on the tax rolls; also, in many cases the geographic location was provided as \"adjacent to John Smith\", etc. and, while useful many times to a genealogist, was considered to be beyond the objectives of this project. The reader is encouraged to consider the information here-in as an \"outline\" of early landowners in Virginia rather than a \"text\" due to the year-to-year variation in information provided to the clerk (or recorded by the clerk), omissions, lack of \"identifiers\" to determine if \"same name\" was also \"same person\" within a district or across districts, marginal quality\/clarity (in a few cases) of the microfilm copy, and, not least, errors on the part of either the original clerks or the current author while transcribing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eobserve distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as \"Smith\", \"Anderson\", etc;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eidentify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edetermine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003euse the 1815 information as a \"bridge\" from the 18th and 19th century deed\/will books to the 17th and 18th century land grants\/patents in the county;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eevaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esubstitute this information for missing deed\/will books in the \"burned\" counties; and, clarify\/enhance vague deed\/will information in the counties with more complete records.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFORMAT OF PRESENTATION: Each entry is listed as: Surname, name, personal identifiers (if any); location\/place-name of land; miles\/direction from the 1815 courthouse. If multiple owners are listed for a property, the listing is duplicated under each of the owner's surnames (i.e \"Smith and Brown\" is also listed as \"Brown, --see Smith\"); when multiple owners share a common surname, the property is only listed once. When a landowner had land at more than one location\/place-name, the miles\/direction listing for each parcel is in the same sequence as the location listing (i.e. James RV, Slate CK; 12N, 5SW.). In the few cases where a landowner had \"many\" parcels, the miles\/direction notation is attached to the location listing (i.e. Sandy RV- 5NE, Willow CK-7S, etc.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger G. 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This work is the sixth and final volume in a project to record all 1815 landowners found in each county, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the property.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLinks to all 6 volumes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl1\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 1: Central Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 1: Central Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl2\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 2: South Central Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 2: South Central Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl3\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 3: Eastern Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 3: Eastern Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 4: Northern Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl4\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 4: Northern Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 5: Western Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl5\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 5: Western Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 6: Northwest Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl6\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 6: Northwest Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger G. 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It was a major crossing point for settlers moving into eastern Ohio in the 1790s and early 1800s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Vogt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2011\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-BRK10\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39268482547830,"sku":"107-BRK10","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-brk10.png?v=1755621078"},{"product_id":"101e-wv0058","title":"1840 Brooke County, [West] Virginia Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrooke County was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County and was named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794-1796. The county is sandwiched between the Ohio River and the State of Pennsylvania. This 1840 census is a transcription of the names of the head of households, the age and gender of those living within the household as well as some of the personal data, i.e. blind, deaf, etc. The military pensioners are given with their ages if listed on the census. Each of the households is shown with the occupation of the various members such as farming, commerce, mining, manufacturing or even navigation on canals, lakes and rivers. The schools and academies are shown with the number of scholars and the number of those in school at public charge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames L. 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