Mr. Bateman, I sent for the French and Indian War record for Archibald Thompson in 1998 and received a copy of the Land Office Warrant for Archibald's service. The land grant he got for this service was in Montgomery Co., and recorded in 1793; the image of the grant is available through the Library of Virginia Electronic web site. I will paste all information I got from the LOV below, and in a separate post, give selected entries from Brockstruck's "Virginia Colonial Soldiers," which was enclosed with the copy I received. The excerpt did not include Sussex, so you could check the Bockstuck book to see if your Peter Solomon is listed. Here's the information I sent to LOV when requesting the copy of Archibald's service record: ARCHIBALD THOMPSON DIARY Transcript by Lula Hankins Hunter <http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/archibald/> Page 102 December ye 1st 1759 We was Discharged out of the Second Battallion of the Virginia Ridgement By an Act of Asembly From under the Comd of *Col pechua and Capt Trockmorton and Lieut Richardson. *Per research by Barbara Marsh, "on 14 Sept 1758, the House of Burgesses passed an act for the defense of the Virginia frontier. The Virginia regulars, in 1758, were divided into two regiments; the First Regiment under Col. George Washington, and the Second under Col. William Byrd. Archibald Thompson, as entered in his DIARY, was a member of the Second Regiment, serving under Col. William Peachy, Col. of the Frontier Battalion, and Capt. Gabriel Throckmorton. He was twenty two years old and unmarried. The Regiment was discharged by an Act of Assembly on the 1 Dec 1759, which he noted in his DIARY. . . (Sources: Archibald Thompson Diary, 101,102, and Bockstruck, Virginia Colonial Soldiers, pp 212, 260, 274.)" COPY RECEIVED FROM LOV: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR BOUNTY WARRANTS Reel 360, Warrant #193 (copy 2 facing pages) Proof of service for Archibald Thompson, 22 November 1779 1779 Montgomery Nov Court No 193 Archibald Thompson having produced sufficient proof to this Court that he is entitled to 200 acres of land under the King of Great Britain's proclamation issued in the year 1763 for military service for which he never recd. a warrant and ordered that the same be certified to the Register of the land office for this state. (signed) A copy James M. Corkle Cmd. Warrant for 200 acres issued to Archibald Thompson, November 22, 1779 =============================== Land-Office Warrant No. 193 To the principal Surveyor of any County within the Commonwealth of Virginia. This shall be your Warrant to survey and lay off in one of more Surveys, for Archibald Thompson, his Heirs or Assigns, the Quantity of Two hundred Acres of Land, due unto the said Archibald for military service performed by him as a Serjeant in the late War between Great Britian & France according to the terms of the King of Great Britain's Proclaimation of 1763. A certificate of which duly proven is received into the Land Office. Given under my Hand, and the Seal of the said Office, on this Twenty-third day of November in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy nine. /s/ G. Curr D.R., L.O.". ======================== The Library of Virginia Reel 93, pp. 499-500 Grants 27, 1792-1793 Archibald Thompson, 200 acres, Montgomery County, 15 February 1793 Thompson, Archibald 15 Feby 1793 200a. On Some waters of the Maiden Spring fork of Clinch. LOV Land Office Patents and Grants, Card 41 http://198.17.62.51/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0493/T1709?41 Grants 27, p. 499 Henry See , Esquire., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all who come there presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, that by virtue of part of a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number eighteenth thousand five hundred and seventy two issued the ninth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Archibald Thompson a certain Tract or Parcel of land, containing two hundred acres, by survey, bearing Date the sixth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, lying and being in the County of Montgomery on some waters of the maiden spring fork of Clinch and bounded as followeth To Wit Beginning at an ash and chestnut on the top of a hill and running thence South seventy two degrees East . . . at the end of Puncheon Camp Ridge . . . To have and hold the said parcel of land with its Apputerances, to the said Archibald Thompson and his heirs forever In Witness whereof the said Henry See, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia has hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth (page 500) to be affixed at Richmond on the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nineth three and of the Commonwealth the Seventeenth. /s/ Henry See ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== Find tons of Pitsylvania County info at the Pittsylvania County VAGenWeb Project! http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapittsy/ Resent-Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:05:50 -0700 X-Original-Sender: morse@shentel.net Sun Jul 9 11:05:47 2000 Message-ID: <00ea01bfe9cc$bc9eff00$14366fcc@jemimamo> From: "Jemima Gee Morse" <morse@shentel.net> Old-To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com>, <WVHARDY-L@rootsweb.com>, <LONGHUNTERS-L@rootsweb.com>, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman@NetZero.Net>, <FRENCH-INDIAN-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com>, "VAHALIFA-L@rootsweb.com" <VAHALIFA-D-request@rootsweb.com>, <VABOTETO-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAAUGUST-L@rootsweb.com>, <THOMPSON-L@rootsweb.com> References: <000701bfe8fc$d5f6ff00$8b763004@fpfzqlga> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:39:18 -0400<