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Excerpt from A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia Section I - Historical; Edmund Pendleton; List of Pioneers of the Indian Period; Naturalizations of Pioneers; Form of Colonial Land Patent; An Apprenticeship Indenture; An Emancipation Paper and Other Forms; Washington's Visit to Pendleton; The Lincolns of Rockingham; Pendleton Journalism; The Masonic Order in Franklin; Law, Order, and Charities; Franklin in 1844; The County Buildings; A School of 1830; The Bennetts of Other West Virginia Counties; Section II - Statistical; Population of Pendleton in Each Census Year; Postoffices; Slaveholders in 1860; Prices for Entertainment at Ordinaries; Levies, Taxes, Salaries, and Fines; Bounties on Predatory Animals; Prices of Store Goods in; 358 Church Buildings and Ministers; County Officials before 1865; County Officials Under West Virgini; The School Districts of 1846; Educational Statistics; Abstracts from Census Reports; Pendleton Legislators; Pendleton Men in the Professions; County Finances; Surveys and Patents Prior to 1788; Some Conveyances of Land Prior to 1788; List of the Tithables in 1790; Section - III Military; Supplies for Military Use, 1775; Supplies for Military Use, 1782; A Pension Declaration of 1820; Citizens Exempt From Military Service in 1794 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.