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Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nFJ.2ACEB/173
Message Board Post:
I am looking for my Clift ancestors who came from Virginia. I know that my GGGG Grandfather Benjamin Clift came to Kentucky from Virginia and obtained land from a land bounty issued to William Clift from Virginia (Revolutionary War). I suspect that Benjamin was a brother of William. I have found an early record of a young William Clift who was in Virginia court documents in the late 1600's swearing that he was 14 years of age and was bound to service for 7 years to a Mr. King and that he (Clift) had just lately arrived in the US. My Clifts appear to have spent years in the areas of Caroline County and King George Counties of Virgina, which would not be too far away from where this young man arrived. Possibly he was the first of this Clift line in Virginia. I have no more information on this young man, who he married or who his children were. If any one has information to share on any of this line, I would be grateful.