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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Rector-Hiett-Hall Families, Records, A&M 0945, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Letters, deeds, wills, tax receipts, and miscellaneous papers, by or mentioning Enoch Rector, C.N. Ransom, the Garrard Family, Mary E. Avery, James Hiett, Samuel Heitt, Thomas Rector, J. Madison Jackson, Samuel and Josiah Halley, Joseph and Deborah Spencer, and Stephen C. Shaw. The papers deal mainly with land transactions and family affairs, including corn prices; building of Muskingum River; notes on preaching in Baptist churches in Richmond, Virginia, revivals, ministers' salaries; deaths in Parkersburg, and mention of a possible railroad to Parkersburg in 1844; list of materials and prices in building the Rector house; and a clipping on the Ohio River flood stages, 1810-1913.

Related Material

945, 1637

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Baptists
• Churches -- West Virginia -- Parkersburg
• Hall family
• Hiatt family
• Hiett, James.
• Land.
• Parkersburg.
• Rector family
• Rector, Enoch.
• Rector, Thomas.
• Rector-Hiett-Hall family.