Estelle, I'm getting some great feedback but I have to say that yours is most interesting. I will do this and hope everybody else has made note of your suggestion to contact Wildlife Management. Who would have thought to do this! Thanks! Amanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "E&B Gordon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [VAFAUQUI] Does anyone know the SUMMER DUCK area? > We've passed through the Summerduck community numerous times going to > Goldvein to visit cousins. Summerduck is a small crossroads community. > Take Rt. 651 off Hwy. 17 to get there if coming from the south. 651 is > Summerduck Road. From north off Hwy. 17 take Rt. 637, then left on 651. > The intersection of 637 and 651 is Summerduck. Roads are marked very > clearly off Hwy. 17. I hope someone on the list will direct you to > ancestor > property. > > Do what I did and call the Wildlife Management office and ask for the park > ranger there at Chester Phelps Wildlife Management. Once you get thru to > someone there, explain your intentions. Your ancestor property may be a > part of the Wildlife Management Area. I got lucky and spoke with the > ranger > at the G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area and he knew EXACTLY > where my ancestor property was that is now part of the Wildlife Management > Area. Matter of fact, we are planning to visit in 2 weeks and he will > meet > us and show us what's left of the house and hopefully we will be able to > identify an unmarked family cemetery there. > > Good luck, > Estelle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Amanda E. Douglass" <[email protected]> > To: "Fauquier Board" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:19 AM > Subject: [VAFAUQUI] Does anyone know the SUMMER DUCK area? > > >> Planning trip to Warrenton in June. Meeting up with some relatives there >> but none of us know the area referred to as SUMMER DUCK. I'd like to try >> to get as close to where my 5x great grandfather owned land as possible. >> >> Also, if any of you have lived there all your life and really know the >> land and early history, families, etc. we'd love a tour? Get in touch >> with >> me off list if that's a possibility. >> >> Would appreciate any feedback. >> Thanks all! Amanda >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Here are the names and I'd like to try to come as close to where these >> people lived as possible: >> >> In Chancery Records, it gives a survey of the land that Alexander >> McConchie deeded to his son Robert McConchie m. Mary Ann King. Mary >> McConchie was gdn. of sons Robert King McConchie and William A. >> McConchie. >> It goes on to say that this land is bordered by land of William Embrey >> but >> I also find EMMONS name. >> ----------- >> >> Then Thomas Keith was tax collector in area where Alexander McConchie >> lived. >> Also, Thomas Keith m. Judith Blackwell. They had son Tarleton F. Keith m. >> Elizabeth C. Stone. >> Tarleton F. Keith was witness on Will of Ann McConchie. >> Elizabeth C. Stone d/o of William Stone. >> William Stone and Charles Jones also proved Will of Ann McConchie. >> So, I know I'm in the right neighborhood by this. >> Can anyone get me close to some of these places named? >> List of Taxable Property taken by Thomas Keith, 1783 >> Thomas Keith's District 8 began at Elk Run Church and ran down [south] to >> the Deep Run Bridge then down the Run [the boundary with Stafford] to the >> Rappahannock, then up the river to the mouth of Tin Pott [Tinpot Run], >> from thence to Rogues Road leading into the main [Winchester to Falmouth] >> road by Joseph Morgan's, thence down it to Marrs Run, then along >> Bradford's Road to the beginning. This area was the southernmost one of >> four bordering on the Rappahannock. >> >> Alexander McConchie on TAX LIST of THOMAS KEITIH >> >> McKonchie, Alexr., Robert McKonchie 1 1 1 2 4 8 >> >> column 1 white males over 21 >> column 2 white males over 16 and under 21 >> column 3 all slaves 16 and over og both gender >> column 4 all slaves under 16 >> column 5 horses >> column 6 cattle >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> On the motion of Lott Hackley it is ordered that Wm. Emmons pay him 75 >> pounds of tobacco for 3 days attendance as a witness for him at the suit >> of James Jones. >> The same ordered for Joseph Emmons and John Henry >> >> Fauquier Co, VA Deed Book 17 p. 548 Dec. 28, 1809 >> Robert and Eliz. Knox of Charles Co., Maryland to James Emmons of >> Fauquier >> Co., Va for 113 pounds for 113 acres of land beginning at James other >> land...to Robert McConchies line...son of Alexander McConchie. >> Wit: Enoch Jameson, Peter Wharton, Benjamin EMMONS, and Robt. McConnchie >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------p.94 >> Dent, George. 96L-Major. D 14-26, 39 &43, 1796. He & Elizabeth Dent and >> William & Janet Dent of MD to Alexander McConchi adj latter's son Robert; >> (2) William & Janet sell James EMMONS 266 a. on Persimmon Run. (3) all >> four >> sell EMMONS adj 97a. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >