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The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--one hundred dollars reward. (search)
State of Kanawha.
The ordinance for dividing the Old Commonwealth of Virginia, and erecting a new State of the counties west of the Alleghany Mountains, has been adopted, so say the Yankee papers, by the voters by a majority of nearly, if not quite, one hundred to one, and a new Convention, the members of which have just been chosen, will assemble at Wheeling on the 26th inst., to ratify the action of the people.
The new State will be called the Kanawha, and will contain a population of two hundred and ninety-two thousand, including about eight thousand slaves.
It will be composed of the following counties:
CountiesPopulation.
Logan4,938
Wyoming2,865
Raleigh3,367
Fayette5,997
Nicholas4,626
Webster1,555
Randolph4,990
Tucker1,428
Preston13,312
Monongalia13,048
Marion12,721
Taylor7,463
Jackson8,306
Roanoke8,048
Calhoun2,502
Wirt3,751
Gilmer3,759
Ritchie6,847
Ohio22,422
Brooke5,494
Barbour8,959
Upshur7,292
Harrison13,790
Lewis7,999
Braxton4,992
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