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Deed Abstracts of James Downing Heirs, Selling Brooke County, WV Land,

1825, 1834.

Benjamin and Margaret Cuppy of Montgomery County, OH to Robert Hewit of Brooke County, VA, on White Oak Run, 24 September 1825, Brooke County, WV, DB 8:8.

"...two hundred dollars...real estate of that tract or parcel of land on white oak run in the County of Brooke and State of Virginia being the same tract of land on which the said James Downing Deceased last lived on in the County of Brooke adjoining the lands of Jacob Nessby(?) James Willson & others..." Witnesses: John Folkerth, Alex Grime

(Note: Index to Deeds, Brooke County, WV gives the grantor as James Downing

heirs)

Isaac and Susannah Vanmeter of Richland County, OH to James Hewit of Brooke County, VA, 162 acres and 23 perches on White Oak Run, 20 June 1834, Brooke County, WV, DB 11:76.

"...Isaac Vanmeter and Susannah his wife...heirs at law of James Downing late of Stark County Ohio deceased...three hundred dollars and eighty one cents..." Witnesses: Silas Robbins, Wells Kellogg

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