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    1. [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] James Grants
    2. Fred Burton Samson
    3. Any information would be appreciated—Court, County, or Church, but no website or undocumented family listings—on 1) An adult James Grant of the Thumb Run area in 1775/76 that signed the well known and famous “The Ten Thousand Name Petition” ( http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=relpet&fileName=000/013/013page.db&recNum=0Service) (J. P. Hall. 1999. Legislative Petitions: The Ten Thousand Name Petition. *Magazine of Virginia Genealogy *37: 58). 2) An adult James Grant in 1775/76 that signed the well known and famous “The Ten Thousand Name Petition” associated with names of the Hume/Fiery Run area. 3) James Grant of the 1778 Payne Lease for Lives on the Manor of Leeds, 4) James Grant, husband to Catherine (relict of James Jones) known from 24 January, 1743, King George Deed Book 2, to settle for land sold by son James Jones of Catherine’s first marriage. (see also 2 September 1755 King George deed Book 4)—did James and Catherine have children?. 5) James Grant and John Grant in the 1773 litigation by William Allison and John Jones (of Bull Run Church) and by Charles Walter (Fauquier County Minute Book 1773-1775). Please, no reference to the Barbee list, see Samson, F. B. 2009 *A Northern Neck Grant Family Amazon CreateSpace, 289 pages, *ISBN 1449540791*--*Chapters II, III, and IV which considers this information which often includes a James Grant, nor James, son of George Grant, born about 1770. Thank you, Fred B. Samson

    04/22/2011 07:51:11