This may be of interest to some Southsiders, as colonial Virginians kept moving, or the counties kept dividing. E.W.Wallace Dear Listers, There seems to be some interest in an early Harlow family. Because a Harlow family was a neighbor of one of the collaterals of my Williams family--one elusive Nathaniel Williams--I have collected disjointed notes about one such person. Perhaps these notes will help further your research. Do me--and other genealogists coming after you are gone--a great big favor. Where I have cited the source, will you please do likewise. Any good research (and I stress good) should be able to be replicated by others. Don't know what replicated means? Well, look it up--dictionary.com or some such dictionary.. Some of the best advice I ever got from a lecturer--if you are researching Virginia, search ALL the counties. And I might say, that seems to apply to North Carolina also. I think a lot of us forget that counties have genealogies, also. I use the online Family History Library Catalog (_www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org/) ) and do a PLACE search to determine when a county was formed, and what was the parent county. If you are still NOT finding your persons, look in the surrounding counties--and States!!! People are where you find them. Happy hunting! Note that some of my notes are incomplete. Family duties frequently interfere with my research. E.W.Wallace 1998 WILLIAM HARLOW [of St. Paul's Par., Hanover Co.?] Apparently he was later of either Louisa Co. or Albemarle Co., or perhaps living on the county line. He was a neighbor of Nathaniel Williams and of William Graves. Nathaniel Williams I, son of John Williams I (d. intestate in Hanover Co., VA ca 1735), apparently lived--or owned land-- on a fork of Beaverdam Creek, Louisa Co. By tracing the surname Harlow, we may be able to properly identify "Which Nathaniel Williams?" We can identify Nathaniel Williams as long as there was another Williams family member nearby--such as his father, John Williams I, who died in Hanover Co. ca 1735, or his brothers Daniel, also early of Hanover Co., and Joseph, also early of Hanover Co.. "Early" is used as meaning ca 1733-1735. Brother Daniel Williams, who died in 1759 in Granville Co., North Carolina, was in early Louisa Co., formed from Hanover Co., and other Virginia counties--Halifax and Lunenburg Co. Brother Joseph Williams was in colonial Lunenburg Co.where he was a county official. No good identifying record of Nathaniel Williams has been found, although a Nathaniel Williams appears from time to time in Lunenburg Co. records but more accurately, it seems, in the land patents of Louisa-Albemarle Co. area along "Machunk/Mychump" Creek. We deduce Harlow's sons were Joel Harlow and William Harlow Junr. and possibly John Martin Harlow. In Louisa Co. ca 1742: John Harlow, Thomas Harlow, Ann Harlow [incompletely copied deed in Louisa Co. DB A] Later, John Graves, probably related to Williams Graves (qv), sold property in Louisa Co. to William Harlow: DB A-414 29 Nov 1750 John Graves of King George Co. to William Harlow of Louisa Co. 56 pds. currt. money. 400 acres; granted by patent on both sides of Beaver Dam fork of Mechum's Creek on the side of a hill. /s/ John Graves Senr. Wit: John Harlow, John Mooney, Wm. (W) Harlow Junr., John Graves Junr., Jams. Massie. 26 Feb 1750 proved by oaths of John Harlow, John Mooney and William Harlow. (Rosalie Edith Davis, LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK A & B [Bellevue, WA: 1979] p. 62) In 1757, John Harlow sold land "along the main Beaverdam" to John Roberson. DB B-187-188 22 Apr 1757 John Harlow of Fredericksville Par., Louisa Co., for 10 pds currt. money to John Roberson, 50 acres in sd. Parish on south side of Beaver Creek ... Roberson's line ... along the main Beaverdam. /s/ John Harlow Wit: Wm. Harlow, John Forsie Jnr. 24 May 1757 acknowledged by John Harlow. A subsequent deed, Louisa Co. DB B-188-189 dated 27 Apr 1757 by Roberson, executed a few days later than the above deed, verifies that he is selling 200 acres of land which he had previously purchased from both William Harlow and John Harlow. The purchaser is John Forsie Junr. "of Hanover Co., St. Paul 's Par." The deed mentions "on main Beaverdam Creek on north side," and lines of Williams Graves and John Harlow, but not of Nathaniel Williams. Much later, in 1778, reference was still being made in a deed to the lines of Nathaniel Williams and William Harlow's corner and to Graves line, near Beaver Dam Fork of Great Creek, Louisa Co. Louisa Co. DB E-301-302 12 Oct 1778 John Brown Senr. of Orange Co. & Elizabeth his wife to John Bourn [sic] of Louisa Co.; 85 pds.; 400 a. on the Beaver Dam Fork of Great Cr... Nathaniel Williams & William Harlows corner...branch of Beaver Dam fok of Great Cr...Graves line...Nathaniel Williams corner in sd. Graves line. John (+) Brown Elizabeth (+) Brown Wit: Zach. Shackelford, 'Thomas Fleeman, James Hogan 12 Oct 1778 ack by sd. Elizabeth. (Rosalie Edith Davis, LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS E & F, 1774-1790 [Manchester, MO: 1983] p. 35) Later Records of Harlow Family Members ? In Albemarle Co. county Deed Bks 1764-1768, we find Nathaniel Harlow of Fredericksville Parish; William Harlow with daughter Elizabeth Harlow; William Harlow with daughter Tempe Harlow. In the latter deeds, W. Harlow is styled as "W Harlow, elder." Early Records In Henrico Co. where an early William Harlow resided, also resided William Womack (d. 1762) and his wife Mary (Henrico DB 1-455), presumably the parents of Mary Womack Williams, wife of John Williams II, later of Goochland Co. 1728 - Henrico Co., VA DB 2?-214 - 29 May 1728 Thomas Farrar of St. James Parish, Henrico Co., to William Harlow of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., for 20 pds, 400 acres in St. James Parish, bounded by Chickahominy Swamp. Wit: Richard Dean, George Farrar, Thos. Osburn, Jr. /s/ Thomas Farrar. Recorded 1st Mon Oct 1728 (Adapted from Benjamin B. Weisiger III, HENRICO COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS 1706-1737 [Richmond, VA: Privately published, 1985], p. 102) In 1741/42, Harlow patented land--400 acs. Henrico Co. on the Main Run of Chickahomony Sw., Beg. in his line (Pat Bk 20-230) We are unsure whether he is the same person. Prior to 1762, Harlow had owned property on Beaverdam Creek in Louisa Co., apparently in Fredericksville Parish, as may be deduced from this late deed which mentions Harlow in the chain of title: Louisa Co. DB C1/2?-p. 83-85: 22 Nov 1762 Henry Ford of Louisa Co., Fedricks [sic] Par. to John Forsie of Co. and Par. afsd; 30 pds curr. money; 100 a. in par. afsd...fork of Beaverdam Creek in sd. Forsies Old Line...down Creek to the fork...up the north fork; all that land given to me by William Harlow in that place in a Deed. Henry (+) Ford. Wit: Robert Richards, Samuel (X) Mackgehee, Solomon Pasley (Rosalie Edith Davis, LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS C, C1/2, D & D 1/2, 1759-1774 [Manchester, MO: 1997], p. 44-45) John Forsie seemd to be purchasing more land on Beaverdam Fork of Machumps [variant spellings] Creek, Louisa Co. Perhaps by 1760, William Harlow was deceased. This 1760 deed appears in Louisa Co. Records: DB C 1/2?-pp. 25-27 30 Jan 1760 John Martin Harlow of Fredericksville Par., Albemarl [sic] Co. to John Forsie Junr. of Fredericksville Par., Louisa Co.; 45 pds. curr. money; 105 a. on Beaverdam fork of Machumps Creek; part of a tract pattern'd for John Graves...south fork on the south side of the Creek...sd. Forsies line. /s/ John Martin Harlow Wit: Henry (+) Ford, Richard Timberlake, William Timberlake. 22 April 1760 proved by the oaths of all the witnesses. (Ibid., p. 59) From other records, we know that Nathaniel Williams was also a neighbor of Michael Holland. The following indicates that Holland was also in Louisa Co. DB C1/2? - 63-64 21 Jul 1755. Thomas Robinson of Louisa Co. to William Harlow Senr. of same 13 pds-10s-4d & 500 lbs. of Tobacco; 400 a. on Sycamore Fork of Swamp Creek upon Morris's line at corner to Sneads line...along a New Dividing line; part of 800 a. bearing date of Michael Holland, Deceased, his patent. /s/ Thomas (T) Robinson Wit: Jno. Robinson, Joel Harlow, William Harlow Junr. (Ibid., p. 63) Brunswick Co. Records In 1745, Harlow had patented land in Brunswick Co., but there is no indication found to date that Nathaniel Williams was in Brunswick Co., at least not in that time period. In 1746, Harlow's lines are mentioned in the patent of William Lafoon, Henrico Co. "on a Br. of Farrars Br. in a Slash; adj Nicholas Cox now Simon Ligons, Evan Shoemaker & William Harlow." (Pat. Bk 25-142). Thomas Harlow Also in Pat Bk 21-425, 1743, is a patent for Thomas Harlow, Henrico Co. "on the S side of Chickahominy Sw., in Slashey Ground near a Slash, on the Co. Line dividing Henrico from Goochland Co. [N20 deg E]; in or near the Head of sd Sw. where the counties of Henrico, Goochland & Hanover join [this writer's italics] adj. William Harlow & Simon Ligon; 30 Jun 1743...." (CAVALIERS & PIONEERS, V. V., p. 58). The fact that three counties, Henrico, Goochland (from which Louisa was formed in 1742), and Hanover, joined in this general area in 1743 (and may still join today) gives a probable general location for the placement of land of Nathaniel Williams. There seems to be no patent for Nathaniel Williams, at least none which appear in six published volumes of CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS. Refer to biography of (--) Holland. Nathaniel Harlow A Nathaniel Harlow was in Albemarle Co. as indicated in the following abstracted deed: Albemarle Co. DB 4, pp. 440-441 23 Feb 1767 Nathaniel Harlow of Parish of Fredericksvill, Albemarle Co. to Saml. Boyd of Parish of St Anns, Albemarle Co. fro 30 pds Virginia money---parcell of land in Fredericksville Par, Co. of Albemarle, containing 82 acres .. So side of the North Fork of Jameses River... Beg. at Waddeys corner Gum... to Charles Goodmans ln... to Francis Grahams line to Samuel Rays line ... /s/ Nathanial Harlow wit: Alexander Mackey, Senr, Alexander Mackey Junr., Gray Haggard Nathanial Harlow & Suphan his wife.... acknowledged at Albemarle Co. Sept Court 1767 (Sam & Ruth Sparacio, DEED ABSTRACTS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK 4, 9 AUGUST 1764-12 AUGUST 1768 [McLean, VA: The Antient Press, 1989], p. 98) Immediately below this deed is one by William Harlow of the same parish in Albemarle Co. in which he givs his Loveing Daughte Elizabeth Harlow of the same parish... one sertan Negro girl named (Jude) she & her increase ... (Ibid., p. 98-99) Submitted by E.W.Wallace Comments: Rosalie Edith Davis's website: _http://www.angelfire.com/va3/redavis/_ (http://www.angelfire.com/va3/redavis/) Do a google.com search for Sparacios' books Antient Press [note old spelling] Some of Dr. Benjamin Weisiger's publications have been filmed by the Family History Library, Salt Lake city and most are on several microfiche. Microfiche can generally be ordered through your local Family History Center and cost 15 cents apiece. They generally stay at the FHC. The last time I was in Salt Lake City, I failed to note that any of Mrs. Davis's books were on the shelves there. A good many of the Sparacios' books are on the shelves at FHL. They have not been filmed, to my knowledge. They are still under copyright. However, Dr. Weisiger gave permission to the FHL to film his books.