Hal Steiner wrote: >I have been plotting early land grants in Orange County and I keep seeing >references to the metes and bounds of Strudwick's land. For example one >land description might read, ". . .to a corner post oak and then down >Studwisks line to a red oak. . . . . ." > >I have checked all the Lord Granville grants, the NC land grants and deed >books up through Book 7 (deeds up to ca. 1797). With the exception of the >Granville grants, references to the Strudwick lands are scattered >throughout the records as part of the metes and bounds of other >individual's land descriptions in Orange County. This indicates >Strudwick must have obtained possession of large tracts of land, but, >unfortunately, none of the sources cited above provide any indication on >how, when and where Strudwick got this land . > >Can any one knowledgeable of Orange land records provide information on the >locations and dispositions of Strudwick's > lands? > >Hal Steiner > I have been quite busy of late and am just getting around to answering some old messages. Quoting from an essay by Ruth Blackwelder, associate professor of History, Lenoir Rhyne College, written sometime before 1952 talking about early landowners in Orange County: "One of the largest landowners in that area was Samuel Strudwick, an Englishman, who was granted land in the Haw Fields (Hayfields) to satisfy a debt which Governor George Burrington owed his father" Later in the article it says that in 1800 William Strudwick was the third largest landowner in the county with 4,000 acres. William Cain was the largest with 4,417 acres and Richard Bennehan had 4,065 acres. I do not know what relation William was to Samuel. Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list See my Ancestors at - http://www.trailerpark.com/tango/lrnoah Gedcoms & other data are at - http://members.tripod.com/~lrnoah Florence Co,SC GenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~scfloren Orange Co, NC GenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line