Wally Garchow wrote: > Cecil O'Dell's book has maps. I don't know what boundaries the tract had to > find it on the map (if it's there). What rivers, what moountain ranges, etc. Mr. O'Dell's book ("Pioneers of Old Frederick Co., Virginia, 1995) is a wonderful resource for anyone researching this area. And it does indeed have maps in each chapter showing outlines of many of the original grants discussed in the chapter. But as with any such effort it is certainly not complete. It does however give some clues to the good detective. The John Stackhouse that I am researching had at least two tracts surveyed in Old Frederick, the first in 1753. Neither John nor his land is mentioned in the O'Dell book. But I obtained a copy of the original survey from the Library of Virginia (all of the surviving Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys are now FINALLY on microfilm; all of the Geo. Washington surveys have long since been stolen including one that I need. G.W.'s diaries provide some additonal clues here, but that's another exercise altogether) and the names of two adjoining landowners are mentioned in the survey. Luckily one of those neighboring tracts is described (but not mapped) in O'Dell, so I can now place the 1753 Stackhouse tract within a mile or two. I was hoping that perhaps someone in one of the subject county historical or geneaolgical societies had published a more comprehensive map of tracts and grants, so if anybody stumbles across one, please let us all know. Phil