A Treasury Warrant is purchased. Land Grants, typically, identify the type warrant. If for military service/bounty land it is a Military Warrant. A couple of the adjacent tracts were grants based on Settlement Certificates or Preemption Certificates. Meaning they were on the land before it was open for settlement/granting. When Virginia allowed granting, the "settler" proved before a commission for settling land claims the date he was on the land he claimed and was awarded certificates of settlement. As seen with "VA Land Office Treasury Warrant # 9582 Adam Hope assignee of Christian Wireman, who was assignee of Thomas Aikin, who was assignee of Joshua Spiers" - Joshua Spiers paid for the warrant based on the acreage he wanted; then, transferred with consideration, usually not specified, to Thomas Aikin and so on. Land was a speculative venture!!! I did not add up the acres in the deeds abstracted in the earlier posting. If Adam Hope did not sell all of the acreage before he died, his heirs and or administrator would have sold it, if Hope had paid the land taxes and still owned it. With a family member often the administrator, this is great generation connecting evidence. One way to tell if he lived on it is to consult the personal property and land tax books which began in 1782. These are separate tax books in Virginia. If he lived on the property he is listed on both. If an absentee owner, he is listed only on the land tax book. Films for the needed time period for Harrison Co., WV are available on loan at your nearest Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints Family History Center. The Familysearch catalog identifies the personal property tax as tithes. FYI Virginia as well as early Kentucky land granting process: Warrant - Right to a specified acreage Entry - Informing the local surveyor how much and were the land is to be located. Survey - Requested land is surveyed with the survey sent to Land Office in Richmond, VA . After June 1792 KY surveys sent to the KY Land office. Grant - Signed by the governor of the state; returned to the surveyor's office; grant delivered to the grantee. Phyllis Vannoy Spiker