This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Logan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4204.1.2.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Nan, I think I have found a common thread to the land in Greene County. I have been corresponding with someone in Greene Co who has 3 similar deeds to one issued to William Logan. I think a lot of people may have been misled as to what these deeds are because on indexes all you see are two names. On the two transcribed copies of the deeds that I looked at, what you see is that these deeds were assigned from one name to the other. In other words, the original owner assigned his rights to the land to the second person. I did some research on the first name on her two deeds. Both names are Revolutionary War soldiers from North Carolina. I could not find any record for the first name recorded on William Logan's deed, but I suspect that given enough time I will find the name of another Revolutionary War soldier from North Carolina. What these lands represent are "bounty lands" given to Revolutionary War soldiers as a reward for their service. Some soldiers moved to the places where these lands were located, but all did not. In those cases, they sold and "assigned" their rights to receive that land. Knowing all that, it's logical to assume that William Logan bought the rights to the land from a soldier. It's also logical to assume that William Logan is probably the father of David Logan, the man who ran the fruching mill and plantation. It would take some work to trace the deeds, but I think that is where it will wind up. Whether or not the other Logan names you gave are relations is hard to say at this point.