This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AUI.2ACIB/236.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for posting this information! Not long ago, Chamberlain researchers were looking for evidence of this particular land transfer, hoping to pinpoint the geographical location of this parcel. Rather recently I saw it listed in the Grantee Index for land records from the Harrison Co., WV Courthouse, mailed to me by researcher Cathy Bell, which states, "John Chamberlin, from John Wolf, grantor, Vol. 1, p. 48, Jan. 21, 1788, 730 acres, Elk Creek." 17 other land records appear in this Harrison Co. index for this family, between 1815 and 1840, in places called Booths Creek, Coon Run, Bingamon Creek, and Hog Lick Run. Elks Creek runs through the city of Clarksburg, but Bingaman Creek and Coons Run are many miles further north, near the Marion and Harrison county border. I can't actually pinpoint the site of this 730 acres from the information I have here, but this could probably be accomplished with close examination of these deeds, probate records, etc. This is John(7) Chamberlain, b. c1761, prob. Kingwood Twp., Hunterdon Co., NY, d. before 23 Aug 1828, Harrison Co., VA (later WV), whose wife is unknown, with four known children: James, John, Nancy/Ann and Josiah, many of whose descendants have been traced in OH, IL, and elsewhere. This is part of a big family which has been extensively researched by several persons, with several lineages, scholarly articles, etc., appearing mostly in the publication, the Chamberlain Chain. I maintain a detailed lineage with research notes here which contain all of this information. John(7) is identified as #LN980 in the lineages (Family Group Records) of the Chamberlain genealogist, David Conrad Chamberlin, Sr. The ancestral line of descent is believed to be: John(6), Lewis(5), John(4), Henry(3), John(2), Henry(1) Chamberlin, the eldest of the five original Chamberlain immigrant ancestors in New England in the early 1600s. Persons who are researching this family are invited to! contact me via Email for additional information.