Helen Leary, in her North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History, mentions (p 324-5) "...between 1665 and the first survey in 1728 of the dividing line between Virginia and Carolina, numerous Virginia patents were issued for land thought to be in Virginia but later found to be in North Carolina." She adds that "special attention should be given to tracts identified as 'lying and being in the Upper Parish of Nansemond (Virginia).' That designation is usually a good indication that the land is now in North Carolina." Carol McGinnis, in her Virginia Genealogy: Sources and Resources, remarks, under the Nansemond County entry in the chapter "Counties and Their Records" (p 191), "a collection of manuscripts dealing almost entirely with Nansemond County is located in the Manuscript Department of the Duke University Library, Durham, NC," and a footnote attributes this to an article in the Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20-4 (Oct-Dec 1976), p 243, entitled "Nansemond County Gleanings", by Virginia Pope Livingston. I can find this article, and plan to write Duke; but in the meantime I'm wondering if there is a connection between these two references: that is, are the Nansemond grants that were actually in North Carolina to be found in the Duke collections? Has anyone dealt with the Duke material, and, if so, of what does it consist? Nansemond is difficult to research due to records loss. Thanks, John Ottinger