ABRAHAM GROOMS & wife MARGARET"PEGGY" and RICHARD GROOMS & wife ELIZABETH both leased land from Geo. Wm. Fairfax, 1786, part of Shannondale, in Norborne parish. Both men to Adams Co, Ohio very early, (family tradition says in 1790's) This was in Berkeley Co Va deed Bk 8 Shirley http://community.webtv.net/cgarreth/ABRAHAMGROOMSA