Hi Folks, Pardon me for sticking my nose in on this topic. Just thought you might find this interesting. "The Story of Frederick County" was published for the 250th anniversary of Frederick county, which was chartered on December 21, 1738. The following is a portion of Chapter 3, Boundaries by Sam Lehman. "Old Frederick is now twelve counties and the cities therein, but once it was the part of Lord Fairfax' 'northern neck' landgrant which lay west of the Blue Ridge." "Virginia held that the landgrant ended at the north branch of the Rappahannock River and the Blue Ridge - that the head of the Potomac River was at Harpers Ferry, fed by the Shenandoah and 'Cohongoruton' Rivers. In 1743 George Hume surveyed the boundry line for Frederick and Augusta counties from Chester Gap (where route 522 now crosses the Blue Ridge) 76 miles to the real headspring of the Potomac River. In 1745 the Privy Council of King George II rules that Lord Fairfax' boundary went to the south fork of the Rappahannock (the Rapid Anne and Conway Rivers) to the Blue Ridge, then 74 miles straight to the real headspring of the Potomac. Thomas the Sixth Lord Fairfax, proprietor, owned 8,253 square miles of virginia instead of 3,225." "Virginia had chartered counties as settlement spread up the landgrant. After Northumberland in 1648, each took the large western lands of its patent: Westmoreland in 1653, Stafford in 1666, Spotsylvania in 1720, Orange in 1734, and Frederick in 1738. On May 1, 1753 the 1191 square miles owned by Lord Fairfax which lay in Augusta County between Hume's line and the Privy Council line were annexec to Frederick County. The Frederick/Warren County line was adjusted in 1899, and the Frederick/Shenandoah line in 1935. The City of Winchester's 9.2 square miles and 36 square miles of Tucker County came from Frederick; 76 square miles of Page County, 34 of Hardy and 112 of Grant came from Augusta county." >From FREDERICK County came: 1874/1905/1921/1971 City of Winchester 1772 BERKELEY County > 1801 Jefferson 1820 Morgan 1772 DUNMORE County > 1931 Page 1836 Warren 1753 HAMPSHIRE County > 1776 Hardy > 1866 Grant 1820 Morgan 1866 Mineral 1836 CLARKE 1836 WARREN 1874/1905/1921/1971 City of Winchester Hope this helps. Flo. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Flo. Day<http://members.xoom.com/Northing/> Castleman_Day_Dodd_Northington_Pugh-Snm Pgs deKruijter_Mabelis_Mahieu_van de Woestijne van der Lijcke - ------------------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email from USA.com at http://mail.usa.com