This is a better explanation. They must have shared a border. In 1777 Fincastle County, Virginia's General Assembly divided Fincastle County into three parts and created Washington, Montgomery, and Kentucky Counties. The act creating these counties described Kentucky County as being "to the south and westward of a line beginning on the Ohio at the mouth of Great Sandy creek and running up the same and the main, or northeasterly, branch thereof to the Great Laurel Ridge of Cumberland Mountain, then south westerly along the said mountain to the line of North Carolina." In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into three counties -- Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. Within just a few years, six more counties had been carved out of those three. Between 1784 and 1792, people living in those counties held ten conventions on the question of statehood; on 18 December 1789 Virginia's General Assembly passed an act allowing Kentucky to apply for statehood and on 1 June 1792, those nine counties became a state, with the full consent of Virginia. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: <EPERRY4616@aol.com> To: <MDSTMARY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:20 PM Subject: [MDSTMARY] WILLIAM MEDCALF born bef 1764 - BEECH FORK, KY > List -- > > I'd like to call your attention again to the following abstracts recorded > in > the VA Patents. Please notice William METCALF, Joseph Jackson and GEORGE > BRENT who owned land in Kentucky very early. Either the typist entered > the > wrong county for Joseph Jackson or the early geography permits Fayette > County > and Jefferson County to join at this point. [I've used these VA Patents > for > years and errors are not uncommon. Researchers should check several > points to > verify]. Here are the abstracts: > > JACKSON, JOSEPH Publication 5 August 1785. Location: Fayette County > (Ky.). Description: 500 acres on the waters of the North fork of Licking > Creek on > the south side thereof adjoining land of William Fitzgerrald, WILLIAM > METCALF and GEORGE BRENT. Source: VA Land Office Grants S, 1785-1786, > p. 102 > (Reel 59). > > > Notice that GEORGE BRENT owns property on/near Beech Fork and Chaplains > Fork, near Abraham Buford; see below ..... > > > Buford, Abraham. Publication 2 December 1785. Note Location: > Jefferson County (Ky.). > Description: 5008 1/2 acres between the BEACH FORK and CHAPLAINS FORK on > Long Lick Creek and the Five Mile Creek adjoining GEORGE BRENT and > Abraham > Sylvia. Source: VA Land Office Grants S, 1785-1786, p. 574 (Reel 59). > > > And you can see that George Brent's land is now recorded in Jefferson > County > [below].......... > > > BRENT, GEORGE Publication 25 May 1786. Location: Jefferson County > (Ky.). Description: 500 acres on the north side of the BEECH FORK > adjoining > JOSEPH JACKSONS survey. Source: VA Land Office Grants Z, 1785-1786, p. > 653 (Reel > 66). > > > Now, please look at Abraham Buford, 1785, above, again; here's another > abstract for him .......... > > > > Buford, Abraham. Publication 2 December 1785. Location: Lincoln > County. > Description: 1000 acres on the north west side of Scrub Grass Run being a > branch of the north fork of the ROWLING FORK OF SALT RIVER. Source: > Land > Office Grants S, 1785-1786, p. 577 (Reel 59). > > > You can see that Abraham Buford is recorded as being on Rolling Fork of > Salt > River, above. > > > GEORGE BRENT seems to disappear from the area; did he die or move? Does > anyone have anything on George Brent in Jefferson County or Nelson > County??? > Can this be the same George Brent recorded earlier in Hampshire Co., > VA --- > where the Combs are located? > > > Deed Hampshire CO VA 8.13.1771- Jonathan ARNOLD & Sarah to William > Milbowen- > - 400 acres , North River -Wit: GEORGE BRENT and Sam. DEW > > > Hampshire County formerly part of Frederick County, VA; notice the Combs > in > the citations below...... > > > Joseph Combs on 19 Nov 1761 was granted 253 acres in Hampshire County on > Maple Bottom Branch of the NORTH RIVER of CACAPION Source: (VA NN Land > Patent > Bk S-229). > > 1782 Hampshire Co VA Tax List: COMBS, FRANCIS 6 in household and 1 > slave > > > WHARTON, THOMAS Publication 18 January 1776. Location: Hampshire > County. Description: 390 acres on the drains of the North Fork of the > NORTH > RIVER of CACAPEHON Source: VA Northern Neck Grants Q, 1775-1778, p. > 18-19 > (Reel 297). > > > Obannon, Joseph. Publication 6 April 1792. Location: Hampshire > County. > Description: 28 acres on the top of the South Branch Mountain on the head > spring of a run that empties in the NORTH RIVER of Great CAPAEHON at > Devauls > Cabbin and about three miles from where FRANCIS COOMES now lives. > Source: VA > Northern Neck Grants V, 1790-1792, p. 496 (Reel 301). > > > Note: William Medcalf would have to be 21 or older to buy property; > therefore born before 1764. > > Ernie . > > **************Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://ad.doubleclick. > net/clk;211531132;33070124;e) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDSTMARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message