This is our earliest Van Dyke. Any additional information is most welcome. John Vandike is believed to have married twice: (1) Charity who was the mother of James, Charles, and Charity; and (2) Charlotte (sometimes seen as Charlottie). Land Grants -- purchased from the Government by John Vandike: 1. Grant Book 29, p. 98, 17 May 1793 -- Washington Co., Va. Henry See, esq., governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, "by virture of a certificate in right of settlement granted by the Commissioners for the District of Washington & Montgomery and in consideration of the ancient composition of 15 shillings sterling paid by John Vandyke a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and fifty acres by survey bearing the date the twenty eighth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty three lying and being in the county of Washington on the south side of Indian Creek a north branch of the upper North Fork of the Clinch River and bounded as follows . . . 2. Grant Book 29, p. 105, 17 May 1793 -- Washington Co., Va., 76 acres on both sides of Gravatts Branch on the waters of Clinch River. 3. Grant Book 42, p. 379, 25 Jun 1799 -- Russell Co., Va. 50 acres on Indian Creek, a branch of Clinch River. John VanDyke first appears on Russell County, Va., records in 1785 when signing a petition to form Tazewell County. He appears on personal property tax lists in 1787 paying taxes on 200 acres of land. In 1790 he paid taxes on 200 acres of land plus 76 acres he had obtained as an assignee of "Gravat". He continued to pay tax on these acreages through 1799. He was still on the Russell County tax list in 1802 but did not pay there. He paid taxes in Tazewell County from 1802 through 1810. Two John Vandikes (Father and son?) paid taxes from 1811 - 1820. In 1799, Tazewell county was formed from Russell and on 27 Dec 1808, three deeds were recorded from John Vandike and Charlotte his wife to his sons: James, John, and Charles for 69 acres each. Any additional information on any of these people would be most welcome. Frieda Patrick Davison