Hi, Liz and All, TOO MANY SURNAMES TO LIST IN SUBJECT LINE . . . "Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia", Virginia by Cecil O'Dell, Marceline, MO, Walsworth Publishing Co 1995 p390 LITTLE Thomas Little's wife Mary (b. 1716 c., daughter of Jonas Denton, b. 1690 c.) deposed that she was in Orange County, Virginia on the North Fork in the Shenandoah Valley with her husband in 1737.[144] It is probable that Thomas had lived on the 400-acre tract for several years before 1737. He was deceased by 7 February 1748 when his will (dated 4 January 1748) was proved in Frederick county Court. He bequeathed all personal property and the use of the plantation to his wife _________________________ [144] Hite/Fairfax Lawsuit, British Copy, p. 169. p391 [continued from LITTLE, p390] Mary during her natural life. He willed a 400-acre tract adjoining Thomas Gray's land to his son Jonah. The plantation where he lived was to be equally divided between his sons George and John after Mary's death. Thomas appointed Mary and his brother-in-law Capt. John Denton Jr. to serve as executors.[145] Thomas did not have a deed for either 400-acre tract but maintained control of both tracts. His son Jonas/Jonah Denton applied for a survey from Lord Fairfax for his inherited 400 acres (where Thomas originally settled) and it was completed on 18 December 1751. he was issued a Fairfax grant for it on 2 March 1763.[146] This tract is located on U.S. Highway 11 near the north end of Toms Brook, Virginia. Jonas/Jonah and his wife Rebeccah sold 200 acres to Daniel Shaver on 1 July 1763 and the other 200 acres to John Mauk on 2 August 1764.[147] Jonas/Jonah purchased 521 acres from his uncle Benjamin Denton for 30 pounds on 2 February 1756. Two hundred acres of this tract were a gift from his grandfather John/Jonas Denton Sr. (Tract 98E, Map 11) He and his wife Rebeccah sold 24 acres of the 521-acre tract to Christian Luther on 1 July 1763, 132 acres to Helebrand Inenet/Inabnet/Inabet on 7 July 1763, 80 acres to Michael Speagle on 3 May 1768 and 256½ acres to Richard Campbell on 20 December 173. Jonas and Rebeccah moved to Pincastle County, Virginia sometime between the 1768 sale and the 1773 sale.[148] Mary Denton Little was issued a Fairfax grant for 400 acres on 31 July 1750; she and her husband John were living here at the tim eof his death in 1748.[149] (Tract 96C, Map 11 and Tract G 385, Map 11A) This tract is located approximately two miles northwest of Toms Brook, Virginia. Shenandoah County Highway 623 runs along the northwest line from near Toms Brook to the west corner. George Little (Thomas and Mary Little's son) was deceased by 24 March 1770 when his brother John Little filed a claim for the part of the 400-acre tract owned by his mother.[150] Thomas Little of Washington County, Tennessee appointed John tipton Jr. to act as his attorney on 15 February 1795,[151] and to take possession of his one-half moiety of 400 acres from his grandfather Thomas' estate. [Note: I spelled "moiety" exactly as it is printed in the book.] _________________________ [145] Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 1, p. 234. [146] Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys, Frederick County, p. 93; Gray, Northern Neck Grants, M-135. [147] Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 8, p. 511; Book 9, p. 242. [148] Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 4, p. 79; Book 8, pp. 514, 518; Book 12, p. 334; Shenandoah County, Virginia Deed Book A, p. 510. [149] Gray, Northern Neck Grants, G-385. [150] Hite/Fairfax Lawsuit, British Copy, p. 169. [151] Shenandoah County, Virginia Deed Book K, p. 10. Flo. Day -- <[email protected]>