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Morgan Morgan arrived in what is now West Virginia in 1731. In January 1734, he, among others, was appointed to the 'Commission of the Peace', meaning that he was a magistrate . He probably received a Patent for 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2 ) '[i]n the Forks of the Rappahannock River & Westwood of Sherrando River' on December 12, 1734. [ 4 ]
Lee, Massachusetts; Lee, New Hampshire; and Leetown, West Virginia [81] were also named for him. Lee's place in history was further tarnished in the 1850s when George H. Moore , the librarian at the New-York Historical Society , discovered a manuscript dated 29 March 1777, written by Lee while he was a British prisoner of war.
An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
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