Thanks, Evelyn. We've exchanged emails before about our common Vardeman ancestor. I descend from John Vardeman/Elizabeth Morgan's daughter Mary Magdalene Vardeman Cockrell. They were an interesting couple and had quite a life! Sandy On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:39 PM, EVELYN WALLACE wrote: > Dear Sandra Hart: > > You wrote: > > > Friday, September 7, 2012 7:07 PM > I still can't find a Stoner in my direct line, but I keep thinking there may be something there to ties me to the people who DO have a Stoner - - many of my lines converged in southern Kentucky when it was first > opened up by Boone et al - - Cockrell, Ellis, Logan, Vardeman, Acock, > Blanchett - - came from PA, VA, and NC. > > Suggestion: > > I am not as familiar with the Kentucky land grants, as I should be. I have a CD-ROM but I have put a lot of my Kentuckians *on the back burner* for the time being. Stoner is a name you will find in colonial Virginia. I think the Kentucky land grants (which were compiled in several volumes many years ago) may be on line now. Look for Secretary of State --just in case. > > I do have a Vardeman in my lineage but I have not studied their roots as thoroughly as I should have. See notes below. Some of this family went to either Louisiana or Mississippi, and that's where my ancestor married a widowed Mrs. John Mooore nee Polly or Mary Vardeman. * > I do stumble upon that surname in Virginia land grants. Also search the Library of Virginia website (land patents) for the other surnames. > > Are you familiar with the Library of Virginia > website? There is an alpha index somewhere in that vast database. I generally stumble upon it, and I head for Land Patents (under L) -- the topic which includes the term *Northern Neck Land grants*. (Instead of collecting URLs I use google a lot.) > > Put in your surnames (you may have to stumble around for a time) in the Viginia Land Patents area, and then go to the *end of the line*--where the oldest land patents are listed. (To my surprise, Virginia is still awarding a few land patents in 21st century, and those will come up > first.) > > Here are some rough notes on Vardeman. I think you will stumble on this surname in Kentucky, later in Louisiana or Mississippi. > > Mar 2009 > > WILLIAM VARDEMAN OF COLONIAL VIRGINIA > >> From Dennis Ray Hudgins, Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol. IV, p. 52 > > Patent Bk 15 William Vardeman of Goochland Co., 200 acs. NL in sd. Co., adj the S side of the Rivanna Riv. near the Mountains, adj. Charles Lewis; 27 Sep 1734, p. 296. 1 pds > > Another neighbor of Charles Lewis was John Crawford on both sides Plumbtree Br., N side Rivanna. (Hudgins, p. 60) > > Interestingly, William Verdiman unknown is listed in Goochland Co. insolvents in 1734 with the number 15 following. It is unknown whether the number referred to the amount of tithes which were due or not. Perhaps Verdiman/Vardeman was not residing in Goochland Co. although he had patented land there the same year. > > "Goochland County Insolvents > 1734," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol 45, No. 4, Nov 2007, p. 295: > > Vardeman appears, however with 2 tithables in this Goochland Co. list: A List of Tithables for looking after the tobacco picker by George Taylor, constable 1735. > > (Jean Lurvey, Goochland Co. Virginia Tithe List 1735-47, > Springfield, MO: Published by author, 1979], p. 1] > >> From Goochland Co. Court Order Book 5 1741-1745: > > Vardeman vs Ree In the action of Debt between William Verdeman Plt. & Fargus Ree Deft. the Sherif having return'd on the Capias the Deft not found and he failing to apear it is ordered that an Alias Capias do issue agt. him returnable to the next Court. > > (Ann K. Blomquist, Goochland Co. Court Order Book 5 1741-1745 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007), p. 455) > > Check the DAR online catalog (for their Library) I think years ago I stumbled upon a notebook on this > surname--Vardeman. (There is never enough library time, alas!) > > E.W.Wallace > > * If your library, your state library, or a neighboring library subscribes to HeritageQuest (online database of out=-of-copyright publications), some censuses, PERSI (collection of geneal. periodicals at Allen Co. IN Public Library at Fort Wayne, IN), you will find some interesting stuff. Look for The Boone Family by Hazel A.Spraker, some marriage records of Copiah Co. MS (were the Vardemans there?maybe St.Tammany Par, LA.) and so on. > > I was messing about (from a children's book Wind in the Willows) with Ancestry.com and noted that there is a volume published by Geneal. Publ. Co., Baltimore, entitled Virginia Land Records. This is kind of a scrapbook, but sometimes that is where your ancestors are hiding. There probably is an index, but sometimes if I stumble on a name, I don't bother with the index, but I have good > intentions to return, of course! EWW > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message