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  "name": "clarke-founding-petitions-1831-1836",
  "title": "Names on the petitions to divide Frederick County, 1831-1836",
  "description": "Every name line on the Library of Virginia’s thirty files of petitions and remonstrances for and against the new counties that became Clarke and Warren, as written on the scans, with its reading grade and the side its document took.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "created": "2026-10-17",
  "homepage": "https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-founding-petitions-1831-1836",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
      "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, Frederick County, 1831-1836 (Library of Virginia)",
      "path": "https://ourclarke.com/stories/clarke-founding-1836-story/"
    }
  ],
  "citation": "Our Clarke. \"Names on the petitions to divide Frederick County, 1831-1836.\" Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-17. Library of Virginia. Transcribed from the scans by Our Clarke. https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-founding-petitions-1831-1836. License: CC BY 4.0.",
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            "name": "line_id",
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            "description": "Stable Our Clarke identifier for the name line: petition, scan page, side and column, line. Does not change between versions."
          },
          {
            "name": "petition_id",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Our Clarke identifier for the Library of Virginia file (LP-001 to LP-030)."
          },
          {
            "name": "lva_file",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The Library of Virginia's file name for the scan."
          },
          {
            "name": "file_date",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The date the Library of Virginia catalogs for the file, usually the day the House received it."
          },
          {
            "name": "catalog_title",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The Library of Virginia's title for the file."
          },
          {
            "name": "stance",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "What the document the name is on asks for, read from its own words: for, against, or neither. Several catalog summaries get this wrong."
          },
          {
            "name": "county",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Which proposed county the stance is about."
          },
          {
            "name": "line_is",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "signature: a name signed on the sheet. clerk copy: a name written out by a clerk or copyist, usually repeating a signature elsewhere. official: an official's signature on a certificate or letter, not a petitioner."
          },
          {
            "name": "scan_page",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Page of the Library of Virginia scan (PDF), counted from 1."
          },
          {
            "name": "side",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "L or R of a two-page opening, or W for a single page."
          },
          {
            "name": "column",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Signature column on that side, from the left."
          },
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            "name": "line",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Position in the column, from the top."
          },
          {
            "name": "name_as_written",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The name as written on the sheet: the writer's spelling and abbreviations, ? for a letter not read, [...] for a run not read. Never corrected or matched to anyone."
          },
          {
            "name": "reading",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "clear: every letter read. probable: read, a letter or two doubtful. doubtful: the surname itself uncertain. illegible: a line that could not be read; it is kept so the count stays true."
          },
          {
            "name": "mark",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "yes when the line is a mark (\"his X mark\") with the name written by someone else."
          },
          {
            "name": "note",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The transcriber's note: alternative readings, \"Jr.\" or a title on the page, a struck line, a residence written beside the name."
          },
          {
            "name": "source_url",
            "type": "string",
            "format": "uri",
            "description": "The Library of Virginia catalog record for the file, with its scan."
          }
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