Liz and All, Note: This request was received before the announcement that I would no longer provide text. ========================== The following is from the book, "Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia" by Cecil O'Dell, Marceline, Missouri Walsworth Publishing Company 1995 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 95-92197 = * = * = * = * = * = * = * Chapter Fourteen begins on p370 POWELL'S FORT, PASSAGE CREEK TRACT begins on p403 Paragraph 5, p403: "James Wood surveyed a 6,460-acre tract located in Powells Fort on Passage Creek on 22 September 1735. This large tract was a part of the larger 100,000-acre patent from the Governor and Council of the Colony of Virginia issued to Jost Hite, Robert McKay, William Duff and Robert Green. Thomas Marshall, Clerk of Frederick County, presented a resurvey of the 6,460-acre tract (which established that the tract contained 9,860 acres) to the Commissioners in the Hite/Fairfax lawsuit on 3 May 1770.[231] (Tract 103, Maps 10 and 11) This tract is accessible by County Highway 678 north from Virginia Highway 55 between Front Royal and Strasburg and from Edinburg on the North River Shenandoah and from Luray on the south River Shenandoah by county Highway 675. Access from Woodstock, Virginia is by county Highway 758. A partial list of land owners on this tract by 1780: John Reed (son of William Reed), Robert Gray (who sold to William Whitson in ~ Footnote(s) from Above ~ [231] p403 ... Hite/Fairfax Lawsuit, British copy, p. 214. = * = * = * = * = * = * = * Chapter Fourteen begins on p370 POWELL'S FORT, PASSAGE CREEK TRACT begins on p403 P403 Continued on Top of P404: 1755), Dr. George Keller, John Denton Sr., George Ridenour, Abraham Dealbeck, Robert Scott, Phillip Munch, William Wood, Francis McFall, John Parkeston (formerly owned by John Carrier), George Weaver, Jonathan Denton, Edmund Basie, Christopher Crosier, Darby McCartney (sold to Joe Combs in 1763), Caleb Odell, John Dilley, Timothy Eagle, Leonard Hornsby (who sold to Elijah Odell in 1765), Jacob Galladay, Jacob Burner, Simon Morgan, Henry Walters, John Denton Jr., Fergus Cron, Samuel Odell, Thomas Sisk, Teter Clem, George McInturff, John and Fred McInturff, Michael clem, John Morrell. ========================== "L. Marcello" wrote: > > Hi Flo, > Thanks so much. Yes, I believe this is probably the same person. Can you > give me some idea of the information that the book contains about him? > Does it mention family members, or whose property he joins, or anything > important, or is he just mentioned in passing?? > I am sorry to keep asking for information, and I do appreciate your help > so very much! > Thank you again! > Liz > > On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:55:08 -0400 [email protected] writes: > > > > > >Liz, > > > >There is a JOHN PARKESTON, but did not find the other variations. > > > >Flo. ========================== Flo. Day -- <[email protected]>