Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1645 Surname: Griffin, Dickenson ------------------------- I'm sorry, I don't have anything on this couple. John Griffin is listed as a shoe maker in 1771. The marr. records don't go that early in Caroline Co. Wills and deeds are the best source. Good hunting, Jean

Sorry I used 1890 as a poor example for obtaining census, since there is no 1890 census. I wrote quickly and just type out a year quickly. If anyone is interesting in it you can get in touch with Hearthstone Book Store at 1-888-960-3300 for ordering. I am going to the store this morning and I hope to obtain more information. It was the gentleman that works for Hearthstone who informed me of the CD's, this morning. The store has a catalog and you can check it before ordering. When I get back I will let you know the details. June

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1644 Surname: Coleman, Graves ------------------------- I have been working on my grandmother's side of the family for sometime. They were living in Caroline County and moved to Charles City county due to Drinking and Horse Racing! I will share what I have. Eunice Hawes was the wife of John Coleman. I have dates and the breakout from there.

I don't know if any of you are aware that the census are now being put out on a CD for $20.00 a CD. You have to order the CD because the company does not put it out in advance. How it works and I hope that I can make this clear is: say for instance you want 1890 Spotsylvania Co. census or 1840 Fauquier County census, you can special order them (by the microfilm roll #)Hearthstone has a catalog and it shows you whats on it before ordering. This is great and I feel the cost is not bad. It sure would help out many of you who need those census for a answer. Click on this site and they have a toll free number and ask for their help. <A HREF="http://www.hearthstonebooks.com/">Hearthstone Bookshop</A> Good Luck! June

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Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1643 Surname: McDaniel, Richerson, Gravatt ------------------------- I am looking for Any information on the residence of Reuben Ellis McDaniel and wife Delia Richerson. According to her journal written in 1841 when they moved to Missouri, the family left "White Plains, Sparta, Caroline, Virginia". I know Virginia is the state, Caroline is the county, is the town Sparta and the home place White Plains or is the town White Plains and the home place Sparta? I can't locate either one on a map. If one of these is a town, WHERE IS IT?? If anyone can help, please email me, thank you, Planetgina@aol.com

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1642 Surname: Griffin, Dickerson ------------------------- Do you have a Mary Dickinson, daughter of James Carver Dickenson? Did she marry John Griffin by Feb. 1733/34 in Caroline County, VA? I've been hunting for John Griffin's wife and belive that she is either Mary Roy or Mary Dickinson. John Griffin was the administrator for James Carver Dickinson's Caroline co. will in 1736

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1641 Surname: Clatterbuck, Griffin ------------------------- Martha Griffin (Clatterbuck), per her pension application was the daughter of Roy and Elizabeth Griffin. {Judy Mace found this.} On the pension app the mother's name looks like Geter or Gates. My information: Roy Griffin, b. bef 1734 in Caroline Co, VA and d. 1791/92 in Caroline Co, VA. married Elizabeth Geter/Jeter before 1765 (when they were named in a lawsuit). She died after 1765 (last record in Caroline County OB). Roy Griffin was the fourth son of John and Mary { ?} Griffin. John was born bef. 1696 in St. Mary's Parish, Essex co, VA. They were married by Feb. 1733/34 when Mary relinquished a right of dower. He died about 1759 in Caroline Co, VA and she died after 1767. John Griffin inherited the largest part of his father's estate and rose to the status of Gentleman by 1732, as recorded in his tobacco inspector's report, and to Burgess in 1734. John Griffin was the eldest son of Thomas Griffin and Ann Thomas. Thomas Griffin was born bef 1680 and d. in 1720 in St. Mary's Parish, Essex Co, VA. Ann Thomas was bap. 21 Dec 167 in Christ Church, Middlesex, VA and d. before 1714 in Essex Co, VA.

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1640 Surname: TURPIN, BROOKS ------------------------- I am descended from NATHAN TURPIN (I do not know who he married for sure). His daughter, EDITHA TURPIN b Nov 8, 1787 d Dec 19, 1852 md GEORGE BROOKS. They came to KY. Can anyone tell me anything about this family? Thank you in advance for any help Marsha

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1639 Surname: Young, Thomas, Thompson, Turpin, Tuppin, Byrd ------------------------- Minor Young was father of Rosa Zelia Young Thomas Byrd of Caroline County, Virginia. Rosa married Davey Turpin or Tuppin or Thomas. I want to know if there were Turpins in Caroline County, Virginia during 1887-1930?...or Is there a record of David Thomas marrying Rosa Young?

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Bible Records Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/CarolineBibl?read=3 Surname: Bullock, Greenstreet ------------------------- Caroline County Native with family relocated from A.P. Hill area when camp was formed. Any others interested in putting together reunion of displaced families?

Someone questioned "Welsh uncle" can't remember who. A Welsh uncle means first cousin of a parent. Some of you have the land description and want to know how to read it. Land Description: S1/2 NW1/4 S14 T19N R10E. This is a description of land. It is read from back to front, first finding on a map the Range, then Township, then Section. This piece of land would be the south 1/2 of the northwest 1/4 part of Section number 14 in a specific Township. Land Measures: 1. length: one mile equals 5280 feet, eighty chains, 320 rods, or 1760 yards. One rod equals 5.50 years, 16.5 feet or 25 links 2. Area: one square mile equals 640 acres or 102,400 square rods. One acre equals 4840 square yards or 43,500 square feet. One square rod equals 30.25 square yards, or .006 of a square acre. Yard Land: 1. A quantify of land which varies from fifteen to forty acres. In some places a quarter of an acre was called a yard of land. 2. a barn or pen for animals 3. a farmyard Land Patent: the document which states the settler had a permanent claim and was the first purchaser of a piece of land. Land Right: the legal obligations which are attached to ownership of land. Land Warrant: a certificate issued by a land office which entitled the possessor to a certain number of acres of land. The certificate was negotiable. Military warrant: a document issued by the land office requesting that land be set aside for a veteran entitled to it for his military service. The land was located in Ohio and Kentucky and eligibility for its ownership was based upon the veteran's military certificate. Military Certificate: a document stating that a person's proof of military service had been presented to the proper authorities and, therefore, he was eligible for a specific amount of land as compensation. There was only one claim to this type of land available to each person. Military land: public land which was reserved for Revolutionary or War of 1812 soldiers to receive as part of their compensation for service. Bounty Land (Federal) shortly after the beginning of the Revolutionary War the Continental Congress promised land to those who would serve in the Continental Army. The acreage of land so promised was on a sliding scale based on rank. For example, an enlisted man was to receive 100 acres, while a major general was to have 1,000 acres. Bounty land (State) in some states the promise of issuing land for service in the Rev. War was far more liberal than that of the federal government which led many veterans to trade bounty land warrants for state warrants. Patriotic service: during the Revolutionary War these persons did not serve on the field of battle, but served as wagoners, furnished ammunition or supplies and therefore were eligible for pensions. Many services to the Continental Army are now a part of the regular army; chaplains, physicians, veterinarians, paymasters, quartermasters, etc. Bondman: 1. male slave 2. a man who had been bound into service without wages being paid 3. a tenant who was not free, a villein. "bond" servant: an indentured servant Bondsman: a person, sometimes referred to as a surety, who pledges a sum of money as bond for another. Bondwoman: a female slave Bondmaid: a female who has been bound into service with no wages paid/a female slave. Marriage Bond: in Colonial days, this was a sum of money promised, usually by the parents or a close relative of a young couple, to the governor of the state. This was asked to ensure that there was no reason, moral or legal, for the couple not to marry and that they would not become charity cases. Money did not actually change hands, but could be called for if the marriage did not fulfill the requirements. Marriage register: a book which lists marriage licenses issued and, frequently, marriage returns. This book is kept at a clerk's office in the courthouse. Marriage return: notation by a minister which states on which date he married a couple. Nephew: 1. the male child of a person's brother or sister 2. sometimes in old documents can refer to other relatives: grandson, cousin, etc. 3. a descendant Neeveye: descendants Nee: born. This word is used after a married woman's surname to indicate her maiden name, e.g. Mrs. Marian Johnson, nee Baker. New mother: a Colonial term for a stepmother. Overseer: 1. A Colonial official appointed to do one of any number of supervisory jobs, a road supervisor 2. an officer of the Quaker church who had the duties of the business affairs of the meeting, preparing answers to queries, giving advice to members and preventing the introduction of unnecessary matters and premature complaints into meetings for business and discipline 3. Ordnance office in charge of construction. Sometimes he is called a superintendent 4. A person in charge of work on a plantation 5. An overlooker frequently appointed in wills. Sometimes the executor was called an overseer 6. a man in the pillory Overseer of the poor: in Colonial days the person appointed to this post purchased the materials to be used in work done by the unemployed. He also dispensed aid to the poor. Overseer of the road: a person appointed to maintain a specified stretch of road. He obtained workers to care for the road from the people who lived along it and used the road most frequently.

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Obituary Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/CarolineObits?read=79 Surname: Anderson, Hall ------------------------- >From the July 12,2000 *CAROLINE PROGRESS* paper: Sidney M. Anderson, 85, of Caroline County, died at his home Tuesday, July 4, 2000. He was employed as a farmer. Survivors include a sister, Ozelle A. Hall of Caroline; and several nieces and nephews. A funeral was held Friday, July 7, 2000, at Beaverdam Funeral Home. The Rev. Fred Skaggs officiated and burial was in County Line Baptist Church Cemetery.

Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Caroline?read=1638 Surname: Carr, Winston, Meekins, Sanders ------------------------- I would like to know more about this Lease. Will you send me E-mail about it. I have some information but not sure of its accuracy. It is probably Maj. Thomas Carr or his father. Please contact me. There is also a book written that tells of Topping Castle Jim Carr

I have been asked several times the counties of Kentucky that was formerly in Virginia. Prior to 1784 the commonwealth of Virginia consisted of a vast territory extending west from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and north from the North Carolina line to the Great Lakes. Starting in 1784, however, the size of the commonwealth decreased, in 1784 the United States Congress accepted Virginia's cession of its northwestern lands; parts of three Virginia counties were added to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania between 1776 and 1785, and between 1784 and 1792 residents of the area known as the district of Kentucky held ten conventions on the question of statehood. On December 18, 1789, the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act to allow Kentucky to apply for statehood, and on June 1, 1792, Kentucky's nine counties became a state. With the start of the Civil War in 1861, fifty of Virginia's western counties voted to remain in the Union, and on June 23, 1863, West Virginia became a state. Kentucky Counties formerly in Virginia: Bourbon County formed in 1785 from Kentucky County then it's present name is Paris, Fayette County created in 1780 one of the three original counties that made up the district of Kentucky. Jefferson County established in 1780 and it was one of the three original counties that made up the district of Kentucky. Kentucky County(extinct) was created in 1776 from Fincastle County. Kentucky County became extinct in Nov. 1780 when it was divided into Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln Counties. Madison created in 1785 out of part of Lincoln County. Mason County was formed from Bourbon County in 1788. Mercer County was created in 1785. Nelson County created in 1784. Woodford County was formed in 1788.

I thought I would share a piece of an article I found, considering a lot of us question wills and land that was left for the wife and family. Virginia women gained some control over their property during the antebellum period. Although age-old laws still prohibited married women from owning land and goods in their own right, equity law increasingly allowed women to create separate estates prior to marriage and to challenge restrictive provisions in their husbands' wills. For a variety of reasons, a higher proportion of women than ever before--both white and free black--owned property in the first half of the nineteenth century and controlled its destiny through purchase, sale, gift or bequest. June

Many thanks to the person who wrote this: "For those of you who are looking in Caroline Co. a really good book to buy is: Caroline County, Virginia Court Records & Marriages, 1787 - 1810 This book is written by William Lindsay Hopkins" I too have nothing to do with this book, but use it all the time. A must for any Caroline County researcher. Yes, the books by John Frederick Dorman [Caroline Order Books through the year 1760] are good too. Ruth and Sam Sparacio at Antient Press has continued where Fred Dorman stopped. [I have nothing to do with Antient Press either!] Their web site is: http://www.antientpress.com/ They have the following Caroline County books available: Book Reference # Book Type Years Price CE - 02 Order Book 1765 $20.00 CE - 03 Order Book 1765 - 1767 $20.00 CE - 04 Order Book 1767 - 1768 $20.00 CE - 05 Order Book 1768 - 1770 $20.00 CE - 06 Order Book 1770 - 1771 $20.00 CE - 07 Order Book 1771 - 1772 $20.00 CE - 08 Order Book 1772 - 1773 $20.00 CE - 09 Order Book 1773 $20.00 CE - 10 Order Book 1773 - 1774 $20.00 CE - 11 Order Book 1774 - 1778 $20.00 CE - 12 Order Book 1778 - 1781 $20.00 CE - 13 Order Book 1781 - 1783 $20.00 CE - 14 Order Book 1783 - 1784 $20.00 CE - 15 Order Book 1784 - 1785 $20.00 CE - 16 Order Book 1785 - 1786 $20.00 CE - 24 Order Book 1786 - 1787 $20.00 CE - 26 Order Book 1787 #1 $20.00 CE - 27 Order Book 1787 #2 $20.00 CE - 17 Appeals & Land Causes 1787 - 1794 $20.00 CE - 21 Appeals & Land Causes 1795 - 1800 $20.00 CE - 18 Land Book Alterations 1781 - 1789 $20.00 CE - 19 Land Book Alterations 1789 - 1792 $20.00 CE - 22 Tax Books 1792 - 1795 $20.00 CE - 23 Tax Books 1795 - 1798 $20.00 CE - 20 Guardian Bonds 1806 -1821 $20.00 CE - 25 Committee of Safety & Early Surveys 1729 -1762 & 1774 -1776 $20.00 CE - 28 Order Book 1787 - 1788 $20.00 CE - 29 Order Book 1788 $20.00 Their address: The Antient Press Sam & Ruth L. Sparacio 1320 Mayflower Drive McLean, Virginia 22101-3402 Their email: ssantient@aol.com Norman Peters Washington DC

> >Jim sent this: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/photo/fauquier/jail.jpg > >by E. K. Frederick > >Linda >

> >Jay Bennet has submitted several wonderful old photos/postcards of the >City of Roanoke: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/photo/cityofroanoke/pcityroanoke.htm > >Linda >