I thought that it was interesting that there was this dispute between the counties and that it took so long to resolve. This may explain a discrepancy on birth. If you find info that indicates Loudoun, it may actually be Fairfax. Don't you think? Teresia F. Scott Hamilton, VA Genealogy, it's a family thing. Surnames and places: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, Combs, Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, Russell, McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ireland On Sep 17, 2005, at 5:02 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > VALOUDOU-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 236 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Land dispute [Teresia & Jamil Scott > <[email protected]] > #2 Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Land dispute ["Janean Ray" > <[email protected]>] > #3 Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Land dispute [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from VALOUDOU-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > > From: Teresia & Jamil Scott <[email protected]> > Date: September 16, 2005 4:13:39 PM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Land dispute > > > One of the staff members of the Thomas Balch Library located in > Leesburg, VA told me yesterday that there was a tract of land between > Loudoun Co. and Fairfax Co., VA that was in dispute for years. She > said that it was about 8 miles wide and is in the Difficult Run area. > I guess this would have been in the Cameron Perish area. Although I > have lived in Loudoun for almost 18 years, I am new to researching > Loudoun so maybe someone on here knows more about this. > > Teresia F. Scott > Hamilton, VA > > Genealogy, it's a family thing. > Surnames and places: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, Combs, > Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, Russell, > McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian > Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ireland > > ______________________________ > > > From: "Janean Ray" <[email protected]> > Date: September 16, 2005 4:51:43 PM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Land dispute > > > Not sure but hmmm, could it be between Loudoun and Fauquier? That > would > have been the Chinn and Powell land dispute. I believe off Bellhaven > Rd is > where the Carter House is located and was once name Mt. Defiance? Or > was it > Mt. Recovery? Can't recall from memory right this second which one it > was. > I think Mt. Recovery burned. Anyway this was a very well document > court > battle. I am of the Chinn line and have information on it not ready > at hand > this minute. Janean > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Teresia & Jamil Scott" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 4:13 PM > Subject: [VALOUDOU-L] Land dispute > > >> One of the staff members of the Thomas Balch Library located in >> Leesburg, VA told me yesterday that there was a tract of land between >> Loudoun Co. and Fairfax Co., VA that was in dispute for years. She >> said that it was about 8 miles wide and is in the Difficult Run area. >> I guess this would have been in the Cameron Perish area. Although I >> have lived in Loudoun for almost 18 years, I am new to researching >> Loudoun so maybe someone on here knows more about this. >> >> Teresia F. Scott >> Hamilton, VA >> >> Genealogy, it's a family thing. >> Surnames and places: Sanders/Saunders, Smith, Cathcart, Jones, Combs, >> Barker, Hawn, Dunlevy, Clegg, Huckleberry, Yeary, Wallace, Russell, >> McCarty, Lowe, Legg, American Indian >> Places: Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, >> Ireland >> >> >> ==== VALOUDOU Mailing List ==== >> Join the Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative. >> Rootsweb members & sponsors are who make this list possible. >> http://www.rootsweb.com >> >> > > ______________________________ > > > From: [email protected] > Date: September 16, 2005 9:04:50 PM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Land dispute > > > I do not have the actual boundaries of this tract but it includes the > area > that is Pleasant Valley today and includes Cub Run. In colonial times > it was in > Cameron Parish. I believe that it originally was set off in Loudoun > and then > when Washington D C was set as the capitol this expanse of land was > given back > to Fairfax. I am not sure how many times portions of it have gone back > and > forth between the counties but I know that in the 1930's that section > was in > Fairfax and then in the early 50's at least a portion of it was given > back to > Loudoun. The area in dispute was never in Fauquier and I have never > heard of a > land dispute between those 2 counties > My mother grew up and graduated from Herndon High School in 1949 and > yet most > of my entire life it has been considered Loudoun County > Susan > >

Thanks to one of the "Listers", I have a copy of a Rust family Land suit. This record was found in FREDERICK Co. VA archives. Yet the land was in both Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. (Overlapping) Shirley Starks >I thought that it was interesting that there was this dispute between the >counties and that it took so long to resolve. This may explain a >discrepancy on birth. If you find info that indicates Loudoun, it may >actually be Fairfax. Don't you think? > > Teresia F. Scott > Hamilton, VA >