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Pendleton County, West Virginia Microfilm


[Board of Supervisors Records] [Bonds/Commissions/Oaths]
[Business Records/Corporations/Partnerships] [Census Records] [Court Records]
[Election Records] [Fiduciary Records] [Free Negro and Slave Records]
[Justice of the Peace Records] [Land Records]
[Marriage Records and Vital Statistics] [Military and Pension Records]
[Organization Records] [Road and Bridge Records] [School Records]
[Tax and Fiscal Records] [Wills] [Miscellaneous Records]

 

 

 

 

    Local Records Categories and Contents
Reel No. ILL
Indicates
a copy
is available
for loan

Bonds, Commissions, Oaths
1   Officials’ Bonds, 1808-1829 256 p., index
1   Officials’ Bonds, 1868-1894 index, 301 p.
 

Court Records
   

County Court
2   Minute Book, 1788-1789 56 p.
3   Order Book 1, 1788-1789 (typescript and handwritten transcript) unpaged.
2   Order Book, 1788-1795 index, 354 p.
2   Minute Book, 1790-1794 191 p.
4   Minute Book, 1794-1800 306 p.
4   Order Book, 1795-1802 index, 499 p.
5   Minute Book, 1800-1804 276 p.
5   Order Book, 1802-1805 index, 320 p.
5   Order Book, 1805-1807 index, 331 p.
6   Minute Book, 1804-1807 246 p.
6   Order Book, 1807-1810 index, 288 p.
6   Minute Book, 1808-1814 331 p.
7   Order Book, 1810-1817 index, 612 p.
8   Minute Book, 1814-1820 351 p.
8   Order Book, 1817-1819 index, 275 p.
8   Order Book, 1820-1828 index, 507 p.
9   Order Book, 1823-1834 unpaged.
9   Order Book, 1828-1838 index, 426 p.
9   Order Book, 1838-1843 407 p., index
10   Order Book, 1844-1849 index, 396 p.
10   Order Book, 1850-1856 index, 323 p.
10   Order Book, 1856-1865 324 p., index
11   Chancery and Common Law Order Book, 1823-1834 unpaged.
12   Chancery Order Book, 1874-1880 index, 182 p.
11   Record Book (Order Book), 1890-1897 index, 335 p.
11   Record Book (Order Book), 1897-1902 index, 387 p.
   

Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery
12   Chancery Order Book, 1831-1872 (includes Circuit Court) index, 508 p.
   

Circuit Court
12   Chancery Order Book, 1872-1883 index, 475 p.
13   Chancery Order Book, -1926 (continued) pp. 324-495.
13   Minute Book, 1858-1869 unpaged.
    see also Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery
 

Election Records
2   Lists of Voters, 1790-1802, and Tax Deeds, 1817-1818
3   Lists of Voters, 1790-1797 (typescript) 54 p.
 

Fiduciary Records
1   Administrators’ Bonds, 1844-1891 index, 392 p.
14   Administrators, Guardians, and Executors Bonds, 1909-1927 (continued) pp. 170-250, index, 128 p., index, 126 p.
14   Guardians’ Bonds Book, 1869-1924 index, 271 p.
7   List of Fiduciaries, 1878-1900 index, 19 p.
    see also Wills
 

Free Negro and Slave Records
15   Register of Free Negroes, 1839-1859 unpaged.
 

Land Records
16   Deed Book 1, 1788-1794 index, 360 p.
16   Deed Book 2, 1794-1798 index, 358 p.
17   Deed Book 3, 1792-1803 index, 546 p.
17   Deed Book 4, 1803-1807 index, 445 p.
18   Deed Book 5, 1808-1813 index, 454 p.
18   Deed Book 6, 1813-1817 index, 461 p.
19   Deed Book 7, 1817-1820 index, 547 p.
19   Deed Book 8, 1820-1824 index, 461 p.
20   Deed Book 9, 1824-1829 index, 524 p.
20   Deed Book 10, 1829-1833 index, 539 p.
21   Deed Book 11, 1833-1838 557 p.
22   Deed Book 12, 1838-1839 index, 512 p.
22   Deed Book 13, 1839-1843 index, 630 p.
23   Deed Book 14, 1843-1847 index, 609 p.
23   Deed Book 15, 1847-1851 index, 484 p.
24   Deed Book 16, 1851-1854 index, 392 p.
24   Deed Book 17, 1854-1860 index, 828 p.
25   Deed Book 18, 1860-1869 index, 624 p.
3   List of Surveys, 1789-1818 (typescript) 33 p.
26   Location Book No. 1, 1788-1822 index, 250 p.
26   Location Book No. 2, 1822-1850 index, 235 p.
26   Location Book No. 3, 1850-1861 index, 34 p.
15   Record of Homesteads, 1889, 1896 3 p.
27   Surveyors’ Records A, 1781-1841 index, 364 p.
27   Surveyors’ Records B, 1795-1801 index, 166 p.
27   Surveyors’ Records C, 1787-1819 index, 446 p.
28   Surveyors’ Records D, 1826-1833 index, 129 p.
28   Surveyors’ Records E, 1834-1874 index, 431 p.
29   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (A-B)
29   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (C-D-E)
30   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (F-G-H)
30   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (I-J-K-L)
30   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (M-N-O)
31   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (P-Q-R)
31   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (S-T)
31   General Index to Deeds, 1788-1951 (U-V-W-X-Y-Z)
    see also Election Records
 

Marriage Records and Vital Statistics
3   List of Births, 1853-1862 (typescript) 102 p.
32   Register of Marriages, 1800-1852 53 p., index
32   Register of Marriages, 1853-1856 pp. 4-7.
32   Register of Marriages, 1853-1904 81 p.
32   Register of Marriages 1, 1904-1970 272 p.
15   Marriage Bonds, June 1843-March 1850 (see reel 32 for more complete range)
32   Marriage Bonds, July 1843-1858 unpaged.
3   List of Marriage Bonds, 1843-1858 (typescript) 36 p.
32   Marriage Certificates (Ministers’ Returns), 1852-1853 3 p.
3   List of Marriages, 1853-1899 (typescript) 181 p.
3   List of Deaths, 1853-1894 (typescript) 85 p.
 

Military and Pension Records
33   Record of Service of Officers and Enlisted Men in the War of 1917 1 p.
 

Tax and Fiscal Records
3   Land Tax Lists, 1789-1804 (typescript) 93 p.
 

Wills
3   List of Wills, Inventories, etc., 1783-1906 (typescript) pp. 1-81, 180-358.
33   Will Book 1, 1788-1801 (includes accounts, appraisements, inventories, and sales) index, 377 p.
34   Will Book 2, 1801-1808 (includes accounts, appraisements, inventories, and sales) index, 253 p.
34   Will Book 3, 1808-1816 (includes accounts, appraisements, inventories, and sales) index, 343 p.
34   Will Book 4, 1815-1858 index, 423 p.