At 12:54 PM 7/21/97 -0400, you wrote: >In reading deeds from about 1829 on, for my family >(HARPERS), I keep seeing the sale of land and then a tie in >that the family, (not just some people from my family), >moved on to Ohio. > >Now I am curious as to whether there is a book, or a >reference, that deals with the migration from the >Shenandoah Valley to the Ohio Valley. Apparently it was >a movement of some breadth. > The Virginia Military District lands are found in 23 OH counties. Land bounties (in the VMD) were given by Virginia to her Revolutionary soldiers. The first US patent issued for VMD land was on 20 Feb 1796. Sharyn Ohio Genealogy at: http://www.pe.net/~sharyn