I am sure someone has a more elequent answer, you may be aware, and then, maybe not, that Rockingham County had a LOT of burnt deeds from the Civil War.  Maybe all the deeds, I don't exactly recall. So, the deeds you desire may not be available. My ole leaky brain cells tell me that you can order the deed indexes and deed books (not current, but the old stuff, which is what you want) from the LDS FHC.  Go to Familysearch.org, snoop around for the Libraries, and search places, what you are looking for is the online catalog of their holdings.  Type in Rockingham, click away till you find land records, etc.  click, again, and I believe you will find quite a list of films to play with at your local FHC.  You order them, they come from Salt Lake, you read, and use and learn, they ship back to Salt Lake. Yes, there are variables on all of what I am saying, and I do not intend to insult, so, if you knew all this, I stand humbled. Good luck in your research! Carol ----- Original Message ---- From: Jerry Bryan <c24m48@hotmail.com> To: varockin@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:51:05 PM Subject: [VAROCKIN] Early Rockingham Deeds I've seen lots of summaries from early Rockingham County deeds.  What I have not seen is the actual deeds with metes and bounds descriptions of the land. Do actual deeds still exist, for example for the 1700's?  If so, where would I look?  Would I need to come to Rockingham County. Or is there a way to access the deeds on microfilm somewhere? Here's an example: 1791 - Rockingham County Deed Book #00, pp 89, 381-383 - Gasper Moyers purchased 150 acres on the waters of Linville Creek from Thomas Bryan and Peter Bryan for 100 pounds, and the land was mortgaged to John Kring Sr. Micheal Trout co-signed for the mortgage, and the contracted stated that if payments were not met he  could sell the property through the Winchester Gazette.  Adjoining property owners were John Bryan, William Bryan, and Jacob Lincoln. Thomas Bryan and Peter Bryan were father and son, respectively my gggggg grandfather and ggggg grandfather.  Thomas had purchased 300 acres in Feb 1762.  I'm pretty sure that the 150 acres that were sold in 1791 were more or less the east half of the 300 acres.  But to know this for sure, I need to see the metes and bounds description from both deeds. Thanks, Jerry Bryan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAROCKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message