A chapter, now disbanded, in NSDAR was named Hannah Bushrod, and I knew there was a connection to the Washington family of Northern Neck Virginia (like George Washington's predecessors). John Augustine Washington (parents: Augustine Washington and Mary Ball) was married to Hannah Bushrod, if what I read on the internet (I used a www.google.com search) is correct. I believe their land was in Westmoreland Co., but I am not a Washington expert. Try a google search for Bushrod and see what you come up with. All who had ancestors early in Fauquier Co. should put these books on their must-read list: Gertrude E. Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants [4 volumes, arranged chronologically, published by Geneal. Publishing Co.] Early volumes of Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers These will have some Northern Neck land grants here before Lord Fairfax took over Northern Neck. Any and all books concerning records of Prince William Co. and even surrounding counties prior to the formation of Fauquier Co., which, if memory serves was about 1759. Many of these have been abstracted by The Antient Press (Ruth & Sam Sparacio, compilers) The Antient Press has a website and an online catalog. Beverly Fleet, a long-ago genealogist, compiled many records for Northern Neck Virginia, and you will find your earliest ancestors or their associates in some of his records, particularly Northumberland Co. which covered all of Northern Neck. Some of his records are on CD-ROMs put out by Family Tree Maker. Once in a while, you can find them on sale. If you can find them, Peggy Shomo Joyner compiled surveys of Northern Neck land, which surveys precede the land grants, and you will find some of those nam es in those surveys. Land records have helped me with many a genealogical problem. When you get used to these records, then you want to start collecting all the neighbors along the same watercourse, as they most often intermarried. Those who live in Virginia or in the Washington DC area or the Salt Lake City area should have no problem locating these books. If they are not in a library near you, get busy with your internet searches and entice your public librarian to interlibrary loan the books for you. Your New Year's resolution! Happy hunting! E.W.Wallace