This is to anyone interested in John Bruce who died 1752 in Albemarle Co., VA and Margaret Frazier. There are two court cases involving John Bruce and Margaret Frazier in the District Court of Fredericksburg, Va. They are CHAPMAN vs BARBOUR & c/1794/CR-DC-L/389-105 and CHAPMAN vs BRUCE/1798/CR-DC-V/558-144. According to information gleaned from these cases, John Bruce was a peddler by profession. He is the same John Bruce that received two land grants totaling 800 acres which was resurveyed to 864 acres on Deep Run. John Bruce and Margaret Frazier were never married but began living together as husband and wife about 1740. Both John Bruce & Margaret were in prison in Augusta Co., VA. for living in Adultry. They had two illegimate children: John and Martha. Both children were listed as "small" when John died in 1752. John (Jr.) was born about 1745. Martha married Samuel McNeese (McNess). John (Jr.) was in Mecklenburg Co., VA on January 30, 1772. The following phrase was used "the said John Bruce his heirs and assigns forever To be held of us our Heirs and Successors as of our Mannor of Past ~ Greenwick in the County of Kent". I ASSUME this means that John Bruce came from Greenwick in the County of Kent. Spencer Bobo testified that about the time Margaret came to live with John, he asked John if he intended to give his son John that land (the land grant). He said he did not & that he had a wife and five children in Scotland & that he would give his eldest son THEN IN SCOTLAND that land. The children were bound to Spencer Bobo after John (Sr)'s death. A deed found in Madison Co., KY places John (Jr) there in 1791 when he and Martha sold the land grant. Bea