Audrey- My 4g-gf John D Hancock b 1733 was in the neighborhood you described at this period time. SOURCE: "Hopkins of Virginia and Related Families" by Walter Hopkins. "In consideration of the sum of 10 shillings of good and lawful money, John Hancock was granted one certain parcel of land, containing 87 acres, lying in Co. of Albemarle, on the S. branches of Cunningham's Creek, beg. at Wm. Moore's corner to pointers in Colonel Hopkins' line, So. on George Hilton's line, East to Thomas Jefferson's line, then on to Wm. Moore's (Morris') line North to beg. July 5, 1774. Vol 42, p. 709. On Aug 1, 1777, John Hancock of Fluvanna Co. conveyed this property to his son, Lewis Hancock. (Fluvanna was formed from Albemarle Co. in 1777.) BobHop Visit our home page http://bobhopkins0.tripod.com/ Major family names- Abel, Adams, Anders, Bellisfield, Brock, Byers, Davis, Dement, Field, Guffey, Hancock, Hockaday, Hopkins, Irvine, McClanahan, Scarbrough, Shipley, Strother, Stonestreet, Wade, Wampler, Westlake