That was so nice of you!  Thanks so much.  Were they awarded land grants in gratitude for military service? We know Adam Hope is buried in NJ so he evidently didn't move to VA.  Thanks again.   Harry and Sharon Moore Colquhoun Yardville, NJ Our family website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hscc/ ________________________________ From: "PSpiker27@aol.com" <PSpiker27@aol.com> To: njhunter@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] West Va connection to early 1800s Hunterdon? 24 June 1788 ... Adam Hope was granted 1575  acres on a VA Land Office Treasury Warrant # 9582 assignee of Christian Wireman,  who was assignee of Thomas Aikin, who was assignee of Joshua Spiers. ... on waters of Cunningham Creek a branch of Bingarman Creek and branch of Jones Run a branch of Ten Mile Creek in Harrison Co., VA Names in the survey calls: Peter Cornelison, Benjamin Shinn & Joshua  Jackson. Possibly this is near today's Shinnston named for the Chinn family of  NJ. 24 June 1788 ... Adam Hope was  granted 50 acres on Ten Mile Creek adj. his own  land. [Wireman, Aikin & Spiers signatures should be on the warrant  transferring/assigning their right to the warrant. If a friend or relative  witnessed the transfer to Hope that signature could be of interest to Adam Hope  researchers. The original survey and warrant were to be returned to the Virginia  Land Office with the last tract surveyed on the warrant. The originals are  in the manuscript collection "Virginia Land Office, Plats & Certificates" at  the Library of Virgnia.] An Adam Hope received grants in the Holston River area of Washington  Co., VA. You can see and print tiff files of the grants at the Library of  Virginia    _http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/using_collections.asp_ (http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/using_collections.asp) Virginia Memory Digital Collections A-Z Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants  and Surveys Phyllis Vannoy Spiker Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message