In a message dated 4/13/01 6:54:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Hdanw@aol.com writes: << In March, this query was posted: >> Hello Everyone, As I Janet (Baugh) Hunter have never changed email addresses before, I don't know what the proper protocol is. My previous address was janmim@aol.com, but AOL and I had a major encounter about billing issues, and they set me up with a free two month new screen name, which I plan to keep. Jleehunt1. (My middle name is actually Lee). At the same time I lost almost all my past emails, including several from many of you. So if you have attempted to send me an email in the interim, please accept my apologies, especially Paul and Bill Hunt. (Although I do still have Janmim as a screen name on AOL Instant Messenger, and I know just how long all of you AOLers stay on line! :-) EW, I did receive your email regarding the various stages of land ownership, which you sent to me privately last month and have posted onto just now the list. And did acknowledge it on the list in a post which I am pasting in below to the list on March 22. I followed your advice re Cavaliers and Pioneers. Since then I have been looking more carefully at earlier records in various locales, ie before the land was patented, and it has been very helpful and interesting. I think too often the date of the patent is stated in such a way that it makes it sound like that was when they first moved there, as if the process was akin to buying a house today. Anyway,....here is my original post, and my apologies for not having answered you directly. Also, the posts I did on four lists on Thomas Cooper raised enough interest that I now know that my next step should be to study Essex Co VA records, as there are lots of Coopers there, including Thos. and folks who migrated from there to Henry (and I think probably Bedford Co earlier) in the mid to late 1700s (ie, Ambrose Jones) and who had connections with the Cooper and Anthony clans in Henry Co. Essex is not a burned county and the number of court records abstracted is absolutely daunting. Best Regards, Janet Lee (Baugh) Hunter. The Lee comes from my grandmother's best friend in Missouri. However my children have a paternal Lee line in Bertie>Craven/Jones Co NC, 1700s. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:22:09 EST From: <Janmim@aol.com> To: VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <e0.1210244b.27eb8ec1@aol.com> Subject: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Lt. Gov Dinwiddie & Patents and Land Grants Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to thank you all for the discussion on this subject which has been very informative. I have concluded that, yes my Thomas Cooper could have been living on Possum Creek just SE of Lynchburg in 1748, even though the patent wasn't "signed" until 1755. EW Wallace in a response that came directly to me suggested that I look in the preface to Cavaliers and Pioneers for the period (Vol VI), which I did and found the following interesting excerpt that could have exacerbated the normal 1-5 year delay: >From page ix "The first of these changes (in patent practices) occurred near the beginning of Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie's administration and took its name from the new fee of one Pistole (a Spanish gold coin worth one pound one shilling and six pence in Virginia currency) that Dinwiddie demanded for affixing the royal seal of Virginia to every land patent he signed" Then there's talk about the controversy and the qualifications for application of the fee... Then it says "By late October 1755 the land patenting process in Virginia had been settled, and over the next three years Dinwiddie signed the backlog of patents that had been awaiting his signature in 1752 and other patents for thousands of acres under the guidelines laid down by the Privy Council." Just thought that'd be of interest. Best Regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter ______________________________ ------------------------------