Maybe I am misunderstanding the discussion, but all (as far as I know, all of
them) Northern Neck Land Grants (full images) are on-line at the below LVA
site. A message there says the files will not be available Nov 26-29. I
can't
seem to get in today, but I go there frequently.
<
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/land>http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/land/
JoLee
At 04:05 AM 11/23/1999 , you wrote:
A remarkable work by Steve Knoblock.
Having been accustomed to referring to Gertrude E. Gray's abstracts of
"Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants" I was looking forward to Steve's
searches. However, when I searched for the names shown on page 1 of Gray's
abstracts of 1694-1742 patents not a single one was found in Steve's
database.
Upon checking the background pages at Steve's site I found that the base
work on which Steve has drawn was selective : "Beginning at a white Oak.
Patents and Northern Neck Grants of Fairfax County, Virginia. by Beth
Mitchell is a comprehensive survey of land grants and patents made in the
Northern Neck of Virginia in what are now Fairfax and Arlington counties."
It appears that Dick Eastman somehow translated Steve's selective work to
be a work covering all of the Northern Neck Land Grants. So, if your
Northern Neck ancestor is not found in Steve's database it means only that
your ancestor did not receive a grant for land that is now in either
Fairfax or Arlington Counties.
Barry
At 07:36 AM 11/22/99 -0800, you wrote:
>If you have kin in Virginia's Northern Neck, check here. This item came
>from Dick Eastman's current column.
>
>Carmen Finley
>
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>
>
> - Virginia Grants Online Database
>
>Steve Knoblock has obviously been toiling on a labor of love. He
>has created an online database listing land grant records as
>originally abstracted in Northern Neck Grant Books. The database
>is available free of charge on the Web.
>
>The original hand-written Northern Neck Grant Books fill 37
>volumes. These records were abstracted some years ago and
>published by the Fairfax County government in a single volume
>called "Beginning at a white Oak. Patents and Northern Neck Grants
>of Fairfax County, Virginia." The book is now out of print, and
>there are no plans to republish it. Steve Knoblock has been
>manually entering each abstract into a spreadsheet on his
>computer; the index fields from this spreadsheet are now available
>on Steve's Web site. The database is searchable by name, surname,
>grant date, grant book and issuer.
>
>I decided to try this for myself. I first searched for my own
>surname but didn't find any listings. I guess the family never
>made it to that part of Virginia. I then tried some more common
>surnames and found lots of results. Here is one such listing:
>
> Clark, Richard, . 94 11 Sep 1779 I:366, {Proprietary}
>
>With this information I can look at the original grant books,
>either in person or on a rented microfilm copy. I should be able
>to quickly find the full record as recorded by the clerks in 1779.
>The data usually found in the books would include the name,
>surname, tract size, date of grant, grant book, grant issuer and
>the surveyor's description.
>
>The home site for the search is at:
><http://whiteoak.home.att.net/index.html>http://whiteoak.home.att.net/ind
ex.html. Grant Books and the
>search are available at:
><http://whiteoak.home.att.net/landgrant/nn_grant_books.html>http://whiteo
ak.home.att.net/landgrant/nn_grant_books.html while
>direct access to the database is at:
><http://www.city-gallery.com/whiteoak/landgrant.cgi>http://www.city-galle
ry.com/whiteoak/landgrant.cgi
>
>
>
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