I do, Jeff, let me look thru my files and I'll post it for you. Jacob Holtzclaw and John Fishback were partners in several land deals and this one for 50,000 is just one of them. They were to settle 50 families on the 50,000 acres, but didn't acomplish that goal. The land then went to Jost Hite, if I remember correctly. The next land venture between Holtzclaw and Fishback was the Little Fork Colony and they were successful in this one, but it involved a much smaller amount of land. Barb Price Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Aylor <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:40:42 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [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 If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to your on-line data. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message