Who was the John Kinkade who assigned land to Henry Robeson in Monongalia County in the 1770's? Or did Henry Robeson (Robinson?) assign the land to John Kinkade? The Carters of Greene County, Tennessee: "The Ohio Company of Virginia organized in 1748 to engage in land speculation and trade with the Indians. In 1749 it obtained a grant of 200,000 acres along the upper Ohio on condition that a fort should be established with a garrison and that 100 families should be settled on the grant. If these conditions were met then 300,000 more acres would be granted. The company established a headquarters and built a storehouse at Wills Creek and were in the process of building a post at the Forks of the Ohio when the French captured it. The French then built their own fort there and called it Fort Du Quesne. (It was Robert Carter than was connected to this enterprise). When the French and Indian War broke out the settlers had to withdraw. And when the war ended the proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west of the mountains. But this caused such an uproar among the settlers who had put their money, toil and sweat into these lands, that in 1768 all lands from the Alleghenies west to the Ohio River were purchased from the Indians. Only then were the settlers allowed to move in. The record book which locates John Carters grant was thought for many years to have been destroyed in a fire which burned the Monongalia County records in 1796, but was found much later in a barrel with some old curtains thrown over it. It reads: Henry Robeson assignee to JOHN KINKADE is entitled to three hundred and twenty seven acres of land in Monongalia County on Wests Run agreeable to a former Survey made by John Trimble in behalf of John Carter to include his Settlement made in the year 1770. (Ref: Core Vol, 1, The Monongalia Story)." ************************************ Abraham Carter of Greene County, Tennessee: http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:wKAuirR2gbUJ:saddlepin.150m.com/carter%2520kith%2520and%2520kin.doc%2520by%2520Sylvia%2520Brooks.doc+%22Henry+Robeson%22+%2B+%22John+Kinkade&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us The Virginia land commissioners left a voluminous record of the land grants in the Monongahela country which is preserved in 442 hand -written pages in the Monongahela county courthouse in Morgantown, West Virginia, the present county seat. the record shows that a total of 1,215 homestead grants were made or validated by the commission. some of the validated grants were for settlements made as early as 1766. these old homestead entries provide a very valuable list of early settlers and their holdings, and include many useful references to the history and geography of the area. (the entries are summarized in Volume I of earl E. coreÕs The Monongahela Story, a projected 5-volume history of the county.) During their stay in western Virginia, the Carters laid claim to, or acquired from earlier claimants, four tracts of land in the area that became Monongahela and Preston counties, west Virginia. the oldest of these claims was made by John Carter I in 1770 and was located on West's Run in an area that has been known historically as the Forks of Cheat. This is a large triangular tract of land lying between the Monongahela and Cheat Rivers which converge a few miles north of the southern boundary of Pennsylvania. The tract includes a small triangle in Pennsylvania and a much larger area in Monongahela County, West Virginia. There can be no doubt that John Carter’s land claim was on the virginia side of the border and the certificate so indicates, but when two of John’s sons, John II and Jacob, applied many years later for pensions for military service, they were under the impression that they were residents of Pennsylvania at the time of their enlistment. John Carter settled on his land claim, shown by a later survey to amount to 327 acres, in the year 1770, but the land certificate confirming the claim was not issued until after the local land office was established in 1779. when that happened, John Carter was not around to receive the certificate. The Carter family had left the area in 1777 and had moved to Surry County, North Carolina. Before they left, John Carter and the three other Carter claimants had assigned their claims, with improvements, to others. John sold or traded his claim to an assignee who passed it on to a second assignee who actually received the land certificate. The certificate reads as follows: Henry Robeson assigns to John Kinkade is entitled to three hundred and twenty seven acres of land in Mongongalia County on Wests run agreeable to a former survey made by John Trimble in behalf of John Carter to include his settlement made in the year 1770. In addition to the John Carter claim of 1770, three other Carter claims were made, each totaling 400 acres, over the next several years. these claims were originally settled by others, one in 1772 and two in 1775, and were transferred to the Carters by assignment. The 1772 claim of 400 acres was assigned by the original claimant to Caleb Carter, oldest son of Levi Carter, Sr..... of John Carter in Monongahela Coun http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ttFD3e1dpzgJ:saddlepin.150m.com/John%2520Denton%2520Carter%2520Research.doc+%22John+Kinkade%22+%2B+%22John+Carter%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us