You may wish to check the Executive Journals, Council of Colonial Virginia, Volume IV, p. 250 for a more complete listing of the individuals involved as well as a description of the property. I am not aware of any documentation that proves they met the conditions of settlement as stated in the Executive Journals. If they were unable to meet the conditions of settlement, the grant was void. Suzanne Collins Matson ===================================================================== Source: [email protected] Subject: [GERMANNA] Land west of the Blue Ridge Klaus Wust, in The Virginia Germans, p35-36, states that "in June 1731 John Fishback, Jacob Holtzclaw, Jacob Sengaback, and others "in behalf of themselves and other German Protestants" obtained an enormous grant of 50,000 acres in the present counties of Page and Warren. The sons of several Piedmont families settled in the Shenandoah Valley in subsequent years." He goes on to say that Henry Aylor and Christopher Tanner of the RRV sold land there as late as 1749. I believe that they inherited that land from Henry Snyder, who left Henry and his sister Elizabeth (Christopher's wife) 200 acres each "in Shannondore" in his will of 1742. If my records are right that would have been Spotsylvania Co as Orange was not formed until 1734 and Augusta was not formed until 1738. Does anyone have any information on this western land speculation by our Germanna folk? -Jeff Aylor