I do think that would be its location, but I cannot find it in the DeLorme Atlas of Virginia, nor in the Oxford Atlas. I thought I remembered seeing it on a map. What map/atlas are you using? Marilyn Barbara Vines Little wrote: > Do you think that it might be what is currently called Rohoic Creek in > Petersburg and Dinwiddie County? >

Do you think that it might be what is currently called Rohoic Creek in Petersburg and Dinwiddie County? ----- Original Message ----- From: jh <jo1911@cox.net> To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [DMU] Rohowick Swamp > Tell me where did you get your package? I have searched and can not locate > this any where. Jorita Hagins > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Annette D Towler" <annettedt@mn.astound.net> > To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:27 PM > Subject: RE: [DMU] Rohowick Swamp > > > > I have Delorme's Map Print Pack and have been following the Appomattox > River > > and there is a lot of swamp land but no labels. No current streets with > > that name, sometimes that is a giveaway. Looks like the closer to the > ocean > > you get more swamp. The maps that are in the oversized, Civil War book > > could have some of them labelled also, the American Revolution Books with > > Maps. What happened at that swamp. My Civil War maps are pretty > detailed. > > > > Annette DeCourcy Towler > > Home page for DeCourcy & Pack > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~decourcy/ > > Web page for St. Cloud Area Genealogists, Inc. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscag/SCAG/index.htm > > Family Researching in SE KY PACK, CHANDLER, WHEELER, FAIRCHILD, RAMEY, > > MILLER/MILAM/MILLAM, JAYNE, McSPADDEN > > Researching in NE KY DeCOURCY, ELLIS, BALL, MAINS, LEWIS, EVANS, SPILMAN, > > HUTCHINS, HAMILTON > > Researching in PA, IL WESSLING, SOMERS, SCHULER, PLAGGEE > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Symonds [mailto:sysite@swbell.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:23 PM > > To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [DMU] Rohowick Swamp > > > > > > Sorry to report that I failed to find a definitive answer to > > the location of the Rohowick Swamp. Only a general > > assumption that it lay south of the Appomattox River. > > > > Marilyn > > > > > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go > > to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Tell me where did you get your package? I have searched and can not locate this any where. Jorita Hagins ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annette D Towler" <annettedt@mn.astound.net> To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: RE: [DMU] Rohowick Swamp > I have Delorme's Map Print Pack and have been following the Appomattox River > and there is a lot of swamp land but no labels. No current streets with > that name, sometimes that is a giveaway. Looks like the closer to the ocean > you get more swamp. The maps that are in the oversized, Civil War book > could have some of them labelled also, the American Revolution Books with > Maps. What happened at that swamp. My Civil War maps are pretty detailed. > > Annette DeCourcy Towler > Home page for DeCourcy & Pack > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~decourcy/ > Web page for St. Cloud Area Genealogists, Inc. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscag/SCAG/index.htm > Family Researching in SE KY PACK, CHANDLER, WHEELER, FAIRCHILD, RAMEY, > MILLER/MILAM/MILLAM, JAYNE, McSPADDEN > Researching in NE KY DeCOURCY, ELLIS, BALL, MAINS, LEWIS, EVANS, SPILMAN, > HUTCHINS, HAMILTON > Researching in PA, IL WESSLING, SOMERS, SCHULER, PLAGGEE > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Symonds [mailto:sysite@swbell.net] > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:23 PM > To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [DMU] Rohowick Swamp > > > Sorry to report that I failed to find a definitive answer to > the location of the Rohowick Swamp. Only a general > assumption that it lay south of the Appomattox River. > > Marilyn > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I have Delorme's Map Print Pack and have been following the Appomattox River and there is a lot of swamp land but no labels. No current streets with that name, sometimes that is a giveaway. Looks like the closer to the ocean you get more swamp. The maps that are in the oversized, Civil War book could have some of them labelled also, the American Revolution Books with Maps. What happened at that swamp. My Civil War maps are pretty detailed. Annette DeCourcy Towler Home page for DeCourcy & Pack http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~decourcy/ Web page for St. Cloud Area Genealogists, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscag/SCAG/index.htm Family Researching in SE KY PACK, CHANDLER, WHEELER, FAIRCHILD, RAMEY, MILLER/MILAM/MILLAM, JAYNE, McSPADDEN Researching in NE KY DeCOURCY, ELLIS, BALL, MAINS, LEWIS, EVANS, SPILMAN, HUTCHINS, HAMILTON Researching in PA, IL WESSLING, SOMERS, SCHULER, PLAGGEE -----Original Message----- From: Symonds [mailto:sysite@swbell.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:23 PM To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DMU] Rohowick Swamp Sorry to report that I failed to find a definitive answer to the location of the Rohowick Swamp. Only a general assumption that it lay south of the Appomattox River. Marilyn ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Sorry to report that I failed to find a definitive answer to the location of the Rohowick Swamp. Only a general assumption that it lay south of the Appomattox River. Marilyn

I guess I should clarify myself a little more. The Loudon county deeds for original land grants is a work in progress being done by Netti Schreiner-Yantis. She has published 4 out of 6 maps about 1997 relating to Loudon county. I saw a set of these at the Bull Run Library in Prince William county along with an equivalent map for Fairfax county done by Beth Mitchell in 1977. I do not know whether either lady used Deedmapper or if the plots are available on deedmapper . My understand is that the Loudon maps may be available from the Balch Library in Leesburg. Charlotte Cain

As to Loudoun county, I think you may be refering to work done by a gentleman in Leesburg. His plots are in the Leesburg Library. Several sections of the county were assembled from his work -- the west half more or less -- and are on sale. I purchased two maps from Willow Bend Books. However if anyone know of them on DeedMapper, I would sure like to know also. Jim Dempsey Pauline Ballentine wrote: > > Hi, > I also would like the information on the mapping of Loudoun Co, VA. > Are these all original or leases? I do have a map picked up at a NGS > conference several years ago. > > Pauline Burson Ballentine > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Lince" <joanklince@earthlink.net> > To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:31 AM > Subject: Re: [DMU] Prince William, Virginia > > > I don't have the answer to your question but I would like to know how > I > > might get access to the Loudoun land grant information that has been done. > > Do I understand correctly that it has been entered in DeedMapper? Is it > > available online? > > Joan Lince > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <searcher@covad.net> > > To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:18 AM > > Subject: [DMU] Prince William, Virginia > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I am new to Deedmapper and have begun mapping the > > > original land grants for Prince William county, Virginia. The goal > > > being to do the entire county sometime in the next decade. > > > Has anyone else started this county? I have seen such work > > > done for Loudon and Fairfax and would be interested in any > > > suggestions on the best way to approach this. > > > > > > Charlotte Cain > > > > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > > > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > > To un-subscribe from DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L (in MAIL mode), send a message to > <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com> with just the word "unsubscribe" > (no quotes)in the text and turn off your signature. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I don't have the answer to your question but I would like to know how I might get access to the Loudoun land grant information that has been done. Do I understand correctly that it has been entered in DeedMapper? Is it available online? Joan Lince ----- Original Message ----- From: <searcher@covad.net> To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:18 AM Subject: [DMU] Prince William, Virginia > Hi, > I am new to Deedmapper and have begun mapping the > original land grants for Prince William county, Virginia. The goal > being to do the entire county sometime in the next decade. > Has anyone else started this county? I have seen such work > done for Loudon and Fairfax and would be interested in any > suggestions on the best way to approach this. > > Charlotte Cain > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Lee, I'm glad to meet up with you again, if only accidentally. In the early 90's I corresponded with you and a host of other genealogists on the Compuserve Roots forum (Dick Eastman, sysop). I had virtually to abandon my studies for about 8 years when I got a job that required me to be away from home 5 days a week, as well as travel. Now, however, I'm back at it . . . I remember you as a Virginia researcher, along with Eleanor Duke, Karon Bosze, and others. In any case, I'm glad to be back and glad, however inadvertently, to run into you. Lynn Simons ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Hoffman" <lhoffman@acm.org> To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [DMU] Rohowick Swamp? (Prince George County, Virginia) > Symonds wrote: > >Virginia land researchers: I wonder if anyone can offer assistance > >regarding the location of Rohowick Swamp, cited in 1795 patent. > > Marilyn - > > I am no expert here, but I wonder if that should be "Rodowick". I recall > seeing that name in my research (though not in regard to swamps <g>), but > not with the "h". > > For what it's worth - > > Lee Hoffman/KY > TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> > My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> > A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG) > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi, I am new to Deedmapper and have begun mapping the original land grants for Prince William county, Virginia. The goal being to do the entire county sometime in the next decade. Has anyone else started this county? I have seen such work done for Loudon and Fairfax and would be interested in any suggestions on the best way to approach this. Charlotte Cain

In that part of Virginia, creeks are often referred to as swamps. In other words, these "swamps" go on for miles! These "swamps" are often the headwaters for rivers, as in the Blackwater Swamp for the Blackwater River. Although I cannot find it on my VA Topo map, I do know of a "Rohoic" Elementary school in NE Dinwiddie County, VA. Jim

Hi Marilyn, I haven't had a chance to look in our mapping programs for the swamp but I just "Googled" Rohowick and found several mentions of it (10 hits). Some were for the swamp and some for locations on a branch of the Rohowick. You might want to do the same thing and see if any might be of help. Peter Bradish Symonds wrote: > Virginia land researchers: I wonder if anyone can offer assistance > regarding the location of Rohowick Swamp, cited in 1795 patent. > > Marilyn > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Symonds wrote: >Virginia land researchers: I wonder if anyone can offer assistance >regarding the location of Rohowick Swamp, cited in 1795 patent. Marilyn - I am no expert here, but I wonder if that should be "Rodowick". I recall seeing that name in my research (though not in regard to swamps <g>), but not with the "h". For what it's worth - Lee Hoffman/KY TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

Hi, I also would like the information on the mapping of Loudoun Co, VA. Are these all original or leases? I do have a map picked up at a NGS conference several years ago. Pauline Burson Ballentine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Lince" <joanklince@earthlink.net> To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [DMU] Prince William, Virginia > I don't have the answer to your question but I would like to know how I > might get access to the Loudoun land grant information that has been done. > Do I understand correctly that it has been entered in DeedMapper? Is it > available online? > Joan Lince > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <searcher@covad.net> > To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:18 AM > Subject: [DMU] Prince William, Virginia > > > > Hi, > > I am new to Deedmapper and have begun mapping the > > original land grants for Prince William county, Virginia. The goal > > being to do the entire county sometime in the next decade. > > Has anyone else started this county? I have seen such work > > done for Loudon and Fairfax and would be interested in any > > suggestions on the best way to approach this. > > > > Charlotte Cain > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > > Send all messages and replies to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com>. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== DEED-MAPPER-USERS Mailing List ==== > To un-subscribe from DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L (in MAIL mode), send a message to <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com> with just the word "unsubscribe" (no quotes)in the text and turn off your signature. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Virginia land researchers: I wonder if anyone can offer assistance regarding the location of Rohowick Swamp, cited in 1795 patent. Marilyn

I too read this book and found it fascinating. Rick Sayre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Broyles" <steve.broyles@attbi.com> To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: [DMU] "Measuring America" > I've just finished reading "Measuring America", by Andro Linklater, recently > published by Walker Books. Anyone who likes history and who is interested > in how the U.S. came to be surveyed will find this to be a great read, well > researched, and very informative. Linklater, who turns out to be a > Englishman who has spent a lot of time in the U.S., was fascinated by the > regularity of the public land one mile grid that he saw while flying cross > country, and wondered how it came to be. The book spends a lot of time on > the history of measurements and surveying, the English transition from the > feudal system to private land ownership, the difficulties faced by surveyors > in the wilds of America, and more. > > An interesting note for Virginia researchers: in some areas of Virginia the > surveys were "large", as if the surveyor used a longer chain than normal. > According to the book an early American surveying manual said the chain > should be 22 yards (the standard length) for open land, 24 yards for > woodland, and up to 32 yards in forest. It sounds strange to us today, but > a strongly entrenched idea of those times was that an acre's size (and sizes > of many other things) depended on how useful the land (or thing) was. > > Steve Broyles > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I've saved the previous conversations the list has had pertaining to printing a map outside of the program at places like Kinkos, and printing to a generic text printer a view of the Table and opening the .prn file in Word, but how about this circumstance: I would like to send a copy of a portion of my map in the scale which prints to four pages. I could print and snail mail. He purchased Deed-Mapper v. 2 (or some version) a few years ago which he apparently never loaded. I would like to email him rather than snail mail him the four pages of the map so he can print on his own printer. What would the steps be to allow him to print the maps at his end and does he need to load the Deed-Mapper program? He's a retired engineer and an owner in an engineering firm--how could he have a plotter at his office print a map--like what information would I need to give him and what information would I need from his computer technician about their printer? Thanks everyone, Marie.

It *should* work just fine, but then you never know till you try. Just install it and see how it goes. I have Win XP and I installed the DOS version here before I got the Windows version. It worked OK. However, Win ME may have a few things different that may cause some hiccups. It doesn't hurt anything to simply try it out. -Nancy -----Original Message----- From: Crilley [mailto:varcsix@hot.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:22 PM To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DMU] DeedMapper 2.0 for DOS I purchased the DeedMapper 2.0 for DOS years ago.... and never really learned how to use it. Now, I'm on a computer with Windows ME -- is it possible for me to use this program? I'm not very "computer illiterate".... but would really like to learn how to map some deeds I have in Bertie County North Carolina. Thanks for your time for this newbie! Virginia Crilley

I purchased the DeedMapper 2.0 for DOS years ago.... and never really learned how to use it. Now, I'm on a computer with Windows ME -- is it possible for me to use this program? I'm not very "computer illiterate".... but would really like to learn how to map some deeds I have in Bertie County North Carolina. Thanks for your time for this newbie! Virginia Crilley

Just checking to be sure I'm subbed to the list. Linda homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2