Thanks Paul - guess I will have to wait until I can get an actual copy of a couple of the deeds and go from there ... I tired to see if there was a surveyor's contact info on the IofW County web site ... seeing none, I emailed the general info link :) this is the email reply that I got this morning ... ""There is no county surveyor in Isle of Wight County. The Department of Information Technology may be able to help depending on what you know about the property. You may also have to visit the Clerk of the Courts to research deed information."" Information Services Coordinator Isle of Wight County Ken Hedgpeth - > [Original Message] > From: Paul Drake <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 10/30/2005 4:26:51 PM > Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] help locating area ... > > You quite likely have named enough general boundaries in both counties to come quite close to those ancient homesites. > > There are a number of ways to accomplish what you wish to do. The easiest would be to FIRST gain a GOOD map of the counties, and then visit the county surveyor's offices in, first, IofW (in the town of IofW), and then in Edgecombe (at Tarboro). Ask those folks to direct you to the approximate area. > > After you have learned something of the locations, you will want to gain the USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangles of those areas. > > Were I you, I would call ahead in order to know that on the day you propose to visit, the surveyors will be there and have a few minutes to assist you, since in smaller counties most of such people are also otherwise employed. > > Good luck > > Paul > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kenny Hedgpeth > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 5:46 PM > Subject: [VAROOTS] help locating area ... > > > Greetings Folk's - > > I know I most likely will not be able to locate the exact spot my hdpth's resided on ... but on my fast approaching genealogical trip through VA, NC and SC [Nov. 6th to the 18th] ... I would like to get some snap shots of the general area :) > > does anyone here, know from these abbreviated transcription ... where "in general" these locations might be found by todays landmarks :) > > from the Isle of Wight Co., VA Deeds 1750-1782, by W. L. Hopkins, I came across the following deed abstracts ... both indicated to be in the IoW deed book 8, 1747-1752 > > pg. 160 - 1 Aug. 1748... John Woodwers and wife, Margaret Woodwers, of Edgcomb Co. in NC to Henry Hedgpath of Isle of Wight... 100 acres on the north side of main Blackwater Swamp adjoining the line between Isle of Wight and Nansemond County and John Butler (being land granted John Woodwerd on 9 Jul 1724). > Wit: Issac Fleming, William Murfree and James (X) Holland. > Rec: 13 Oct 1748 > John Woodwerd > > pg. 399 - 26 Nov. 1750... James Mackleney of Edgcomb Co. in NC to Henry Hedgpath of Isle of Wight... 150 acres on Beaverdam Branch adjoining James Johnson (being part of a patent granted Arthur Allen and Edward Felwell and Robert Horning on 29 Nov. 1679). > Wit: Abraham (X) Johnson Jr., Nathaniel (X) Johnson and William Moore. > Rec: 6 Jun 1751 > James Mackleney >