Monongalia County, (West) Virginia Records of the District, Superior, and County Courts, Volume 7: 1808-1814

By Melba Pender Zinn

Abstracts of the only surviving court records for the early years of Monongalia County derived from the District Court which served Monongalia, Harrison, Randolph, and Ohio counties, and the surrounding counties. The cases deal predominantly with civil matters such as bad debts, slander, trespass, and disputes over land and the settlement of estates.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0788401386
• ISBN13: 9780788401381
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Heritage Books
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An Important Resource for Monongalia County Historians and Genealogists

Monongalia County (West) Virginia, Records of the District, Superior, and County Courts, Volume 7: 18018-1814, is one volume of an 11 Volume work. The compiler, Melba Pender Zinn is a role model for genealogists. She has made the court records of Monongalia County for 1776-1822 readily available to amateur genealogists and family historians. I recommend the set to anyone interested in early West Virginia history, especially folks whose ancestors were pioneer settlers of Monongalia and Preston Counties (West) Virginia. Recently I have obtained copies of several of the original records. I marvel at Mrs. Zinn's gift for reading and transcribing 18th and early 19th Century script.