First entry for my ancestor. Vol. III page 281 Deed Book No. 2 page 541 28 February 28, 1749 William Beverley to William McNabb, 300 acres in Beverley Manor. Corner : Samuel Downey, Adam Thompson's line; Corner: John Campbell; Corner JAMES CALLISON; Alexander McFeeter's line: Teste: John Lin, John Linn, Andrew McClure Vol. III page 282 Deed Book No. 2 Page 614 28 February 28 1749 William Beverley to JAMES CALLISON, 276 acres in Beverley Manor, corner; William Ledgerwood. Teste: Nathaniel Davies Page 617 William Beverley to JAMES CALLISON, 230 acres on Nutt's Creek in Beverley Manor. corner, John Linn; McNabb's Corner; Bigham's line 1752 court case has James Callison (late of Albemarle County) Note from THE SCOTCH IRISH- a Social History by James G. Leyburn. For the entire fifty-eight years of the Great Migration, (1717-1755) the large majority of Scotch-Irish made their entry to America through Philadelphia or Chester or New Castle. With these towns as their starting point and the western frontier their destination, the immigrants, as they poured in, found their path of progress almost laid out for them by geography. The Great Valley led westward for a hundred miles or more; then when high mountains blocked further easy movement in that direction, the Valley turned southwestward across the Potomac to become the Shenandoah Valley. After getting their bearing in the cities, they were not likely to linger. They had come to be farmers, not artisans or hired workers. All were eager to get to the frontier. Two counties in the Valley of Virginia, Augusta and Rockbridge claim to be the most Scotch Irish counties in the present day United States, their stock derived from Ulstermen who came down from, or at least through, Pennsylvania. Penn's province was full of small farmers from Northern Ireland and Germany within fifty years of its foundation, while Virginia for a century and a quarter after Jamestown was primarily a plantation colony. It's western regions, especially the fertile lands of the Shenandoah Valley, were almost empty. The rulers of Virginia began to think of inviting immigrants into the back country and then primarily as a military safeguard. The year 1730 was the effective date of the opening of the Valley of Virginia. In 1736, Governor Gooch gave a grant to William Beverley for the MANOR OF BEVERLY, lying in Orange County. The 'better' families took pains to have their lands surveyed and their purchases confirmed. Legal title was received at the rate of one English pound for forty acres. " Take care Marilyn