1. The recipients didn't have to have deeds to inherited land. The fact that it passed by will, or was ordered by chancery, is sufficient. Does the division show up in the land tax records, post 1840? 2. You may have to work the deeds back in time. Find out how the deceased came into possession of the property. 3. Were the daughters married at the time of the division? Have you searched under their married names? Was a chancery suit filed to create the division? Who were the parties involved? Have your researched their connections to the family of interest? 4. Another approach is to plat the neighborhood. Since you already have a plat of the division, put those pieces together and start working out from them. Ideally, you would plat the adjoining properties, as in concentric circles, going out until you find a land mark to which one piece of property can be attached. Ms. Marty Hiatt, CGRS "Document what you find, listen to what you are told, and especially, love and respect your work." John Morris CGRS is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. ----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Eugene McInturff" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:31 PM Subject: Estate Division question > Frederick County Chancery Court appointed a committee to divide the real > estate of a deceased person in the mid 1840's. This was accomplished > and a drawing/plat was made (and included in the court records) of the > several sections awarded to several persons. > > I'm attempting to find out who owns the land today but cannot find, in > the index of deeds, any listing or reference to those persons to whom > the property was given in the division, nor is there a grantee or > grantor listing of the receipants or of the deceased for this land. > > Suggestions as to where/how to find/trace ownership of the land will be > greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance..........Eugene > > ______________________________

Several years ago, I found the will of James Harroll in the Washington co., Va. records and learned that he willed land to sons James and Robert and to daughter Mary. I found a deed by which James III, son of James II, sold his land to my ggggrandfather but could not find a records of Robert disposing of his land. Much later, in the loose papers found in the courthouse, I found records of the land being sold for taxes, the deed was signed by the Sheriff. Robert Herrell (Harroll) had moved to KY before his father died in 1796 and never returned to claim the land or did not know it was being sold for taxes. I did not find a deed to James II or James III, only the deed made when he sold it. This taught me something, look for tax sales when tracing old land titles, such sales were quite common when people died and their children had moved west. G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.