research in this massive body of records can now be accomplished at a glance
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such as divorce petitions
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while substantial sections are devoted to lists of early settlers and biographical sketches of those who subsequently became known as Pennsylvania Germans
Virginia County Records: 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners & Gazetteer Vol 6: Northwestern Region by Roger G. Ward research in this massive bodyIncludes the counties of Berkeley, Brooke, Cabell, Hampshire, Hardy, Harrison, Jefferson, Kanawha, Mason, Monongalia, Ohio, Pendleton, Randolph, Tyler, and Wood. In 1782 the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county 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