Thank you, Martha. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martha Boggs" <lmboggs@cox.net> To: <DANIEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:25 AM Subject: [DANIEL-L] Early Virginia records > Robert, Payne, John, and all interested, > > Go to the Library of Congress website, then to American Memory to search > collections. I put "Washington Manuscripts" in the search window. There > are just a few, and some have images, mainly letters. After these, there > will be a list of all the manuscripts that are online in the Library. There > are some 500 documents online, but just a few of George Washington's. I > went back to my notes and looked again at the Genealogy.com source. This is > a subscription site, as you probably know, but it has an excellent > collection of early sources. > > On the Genealogy site, there is Colonial America 1607-1789, tax lists and > state censuses. Also a collection called Colonial Virginia Source Records > 1600s-1800s. Another is a list of Virginia tax payers 1782-1787 that gives > county, number of polls and slaves. Another set is Virginia Colonial > Soldiers. This is where I found the references to John Daniel in the > Washington mss. No actual quotes here, but two numbers that don't help > much..just 112, 86, probably volume and page numbers. > > The reference to Samuel Daniel is this: > "Sam. Daniel, soldier in 1758 till properly discharged, in a regiment raised > for the defense of this state. Caroline Co., VA. Cert. date April 1780." > An index also gives this F. I.B.W. (French and Indian Bounty Warrant). This > is from Virginia Colonial Militia records. In the section on bounty land > applications, there are names of all applicants from each county in Virginia > and some information on each. The Caroline County portion says that Samuel > Daniel and Michael Brown Roberts were soldiers until discharged in 1758. > Application date was 14 April 1780. > > These paid sites are expensive, but there is a lot of information. Ancestry > also has good but expensive sources. I just grit my teeth and pay. > > Martha > > > > ==== DANIEL Mailing List ==== > DO NOT FORGET: This is a Genealogical Mailing List and the posting of messages that do not relate to the DANIEL Family, its collateral families or those of a historical nature relating to genealogical research -- are not allowed on this list. > >