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The information provided in these records included numeration of the following categories: numbers of white tithables sixteen years old and upwards, slaves between twelve and sixteen years old, slaves sixteen years old and upwards, horses, asses, mules, mares and colts, merchant licenses, ordinary licenses, stud horses, carriages and coaches, stage wagons, two-wheel carriages, and tax charged. Also included are names of free Negroes chargeable with tax. Categories recorded varied each year. Transcription was made on only the first several categories, those primarily detailing numbers of people and horses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia B. 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An informative list of commonly used medical terms and their meanings is included.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia B. Duncan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2004), 2010, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 242 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585499335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-D0933\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":671946571792,"sku":"101-D0933","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-d0933.png?v=1727738383"},{"product_id":"101-d0934","title":"Jefferson County, West Virginia Death Records, 1881-1903","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese alphabetically arranged entries reveal surname, given name, race and gender, date of death, place of death, cause of death, age, parents, place or year of birth, occupation, spouse or consort of, informant, and page and line. The index lists only those names that differ from the surname of the decedent. An informative list of commonly used medical terms and their meanings is included.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia B. Duncan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2004), 2012, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 254 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585499342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-D0934\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":668615245840,"sku":"101-D0934","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-d0934.png?v=1727738386"},{"product_id":"101-d5514","title":"Jefferson County, [West] Virginia Will Book Abstracts, Volumes 1 and 2, 1801-1816","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed for Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson County, Virginia, was formed from Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1801. It remained a part of Virginia until 1863. Both Berkeley and Jefferson Counties voted for secession from the United States in the vote taken on May 23, 1861; then in 1863, voted in favor of annexation to West Virginia. In 1871, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Virginia v. West Virginia to uphold the secession of West Virginia (including Berkeley and Jefferson Counties) from Virginia. These abstracts are of the Jefferson County, Virginia records from the county's formation in 1801 until it became part of West Virginia in 1863. Will Book Volume 1 covers 1801 to 1813; Will Book Volume 2 covers 1813 to 1816. These abstracts provide pertinent names and dates, including administrators, executors, appraisers, distributees and legatees, purchasers at sales, slaves, court order dates and date the item was received in court for recording. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia B. Duncan and Elizabeth R. 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Although the county was not formed until 1801, Bushong begins his account in 1719 in order to cover the area's early history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterned after 19th century local histories, the book's contents cover a diverse array of items such as natural features, the American Revolution, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, as well as the development of such institutions as churches, schools, newspapers, and politics. Biographical sketches of prominent former residents average about one page each.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices include soldier rosters for the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World War I, as well as rosters of Jefferson County officials. The illustrations are primarily of buildings and the incidents associated with John Brown's trial. The author held a Ph.D. and was professor of history and government at Shepherd State Teachers College.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMillard Kessler Bushong\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1941), 2007, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 456 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788422508\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B2250\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42399805584,"sku":"101-B2250","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b2250.png?v=1727713381"},{"product_id":"101-d0874","title":"Jefferson County, [West] Virginia 1802-1813 Personal Property Tax Lists","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese entries appear in the order they were presented in the original tax books, generally alphabetical by letter. The information provided in these records included numeration of the following categories: numbers of white tithables 16 years old and upwards, slaves 12-16 years old, slaves 16 years old and upwards, horses, asses, mules, mares and colts, ordinary licenses, stud horses, carriages and coaches, stage wagons, 2 wheel carriages, and tax charged. Also included are names of free Negroes, grist and sawmills, printing presses, tan yards and ferries. Categories recorded varied each year. Transcription was made on only the first several categories, those primarily detailing numbers of people and horses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia B. Duncan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2003, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, alphabetical, 190 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585498741\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-D0874\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39321177784438,"sku":"101-D0874","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-d0874.png?v=1727738948"},{"product_id":"101-l0670","title":"Marriages of Jefferson County, [West] Virginia, 1801 through 1890","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn alphabetical arrangement of the marriage information found in Record of Marriages No. 1 1801-1853; An alphabetical transcript of the marriage records of Jefferson County from 1801 to 1853 arranged by husbands (Shugert transcription); Register of Marriage Licenses issued by the Clerk of the County Court of Jefferson County, Virginia (covering the period 1850 to 1865); and Record of Marriages No. 3 1865-1890.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. Lester Link\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1973), 2007, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, alphabetical, 656 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585496709\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-L0670\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39314460967030,"sku":"101-L0670","price":49.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-l0670.png?v=1727797915"},{"product_id":"101-m0247","title":"Wills of Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1801-1899","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn index of wills and estate documents held in the County Clerk's Office.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDale Morrow and Deborah Morrow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1992, 1994), 2011, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 22 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585492473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-M0247\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39327678365814,"sku":"101-M0247","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-m0247.png?v=1727798049"},{"product_id":"101-t5792","title":"Jefferson County's [West Virginia] Fourth Estate, 1840-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis story begins in Jefferson County, Virginia, in the early 1840's. Told chiefly through the viewpoints and voices of contemporary local journalists, it attempts to present events as they saw them. Their readers' world views were shaped mainly by what they read in the press, augmented by letters and word of mouth, so the Fourth Estate exerted an enormous influence on the public's thoughts and actions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe cast of characters includes John S. and Horatio N. Gallaher of the Virginia Free Press; James W. Beller of the Spirit of Jefferson; and Henry Hardy, H. W. McAnly, and John H. Zittle of the Shepherdstown Register. J. Harrison Kelly and B. F. Washington also figure largely in this narrative, for they both wrote for local newspapers before becoming editors in their own right. While some of the participants spent their entire professional careers in Jefferson County, Virginia, others followed the news and their fortunes westward, settling in California or other newly opened territories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdopting the motto that \"The Pen is mightier than the sword,\" many editors believed they could use their skills to shape voters' opinions. Like many newspapers of the time, they were political organs, founded to publicize party ideas and promote candidates seeking public office. These editors represent the viewpoints of the local Whig and Democratic parties as they struggled with major issues such as the Mexican War, Westward Expansion, the California Gold Rush, the spread of slavery, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe current volume closes with the signing of the Compromise of 1850, but subsequent volumes will continue the narrative up through the 1870's to the end of Reconstruction, exploring how these journalists tried to change their world and in turn were changed by it. The book is arranged chronologically and grouped in five parts: The Pen and the Sword, Manifest Destiny, Seeing the Elephant, Golden Shackles, and Conflict and Compromise. The narrative is enhanced by a wealth of illustrations and an index to full-names, places and subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam D. 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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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