Cavaliers & Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents & Grants, 1623-66 (Genealogy) by: Nell Marion Nugent ISBN: 9780806302645 (0-8063-0264-X)0 Book Title: Cavaliers & Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents & Grants, Volume 1 - 1623-1666 Author: Nell Marion Nugent Binding: Hard Cover Copyright: 2004 Pages: 767 Size: 5.75 x 8.75 x 1.75 in. ************************************* NEW PRINTED BOOK ************************************* $49/94 + $4.95 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Cavaliers-and-Pioneers-1623-166-Virginia-Genealogy-/200453386682?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eabf3f1ba This is one of the most outstanding records of early emigrants to Virginia. It records, under the name of the patentee or grantee, the earliest Virginia land grants and patents from 1623 to 1666, giving the number of acres, locations and dates of settlement, and names of family members, and it further provides references to marriages, wills, and other legal instruments. It also has the names of some thousands who were transported or brought over by the early settlers as "headrights." The index contains the names of about 20,000 persons. For anyone whose research takes them into seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Virginia, Nell Marion Nugent's three-volume Cavaliers and Pioneers is an indispensable source. These abstracts of the records of the colonial land office cover the years from 1623 to 1666 (Volume 1), from 1666 to 1695 (Volume 2), and from 1695 to 1732 (Volume 3). Dennis Ray Hudgins, in collaboration with The Virginia Genealogical Society, has edited additional volumes under the same title which brings the series to 1774 and the end of the forty-two volume colonial patent book series. The abstract of each patent gives, in order, the name of the patentee, the number of acres in the patent, the county in which the land was situated at the time the patent was issued, the date of the patent, the book and page of recordation, a description of the location of the land, and, if applicable, the names of the persons on the basis of whose transportation the patent was due. Any additional information contained within the patent is also abstracted. The index includes all proper personal names as well as geographical designations. Patents issued for land in the Northern Neck, or Fairfax, Proprietary are not included in this series of records.