Wow Phyllis, Excellent direction. I had a great time checking out lots of folks in the area. Thank you soooooo very much. I appreciate the assistance. -----Original Message----- From: PSpiker27@aol.com [mailto:PSpiker27@aol.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:16 AM To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Moses & Elizabeth Henry Moses Henry Google LVA. Select The Library of Virginia. What we have. Land records. Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys Enter Henry Moses in to the search window; click GO. When the list of hits shows go to the next page and see the answer to your question!! Click the square in front of the name. Click "Selected" to see the digitized land office card. At the top there is a link to the image of the grant and another to the survey. First slick the grant link. On the new window click "Click Here". On the next window click on the "document" and be patient! You will get the beginning of the grant. To print this page click your browser's print icon. Click options on the printer window and select "fit to page". After it prints. Hit the Go Back icon (<) the browser and you will be taken back to the "document" screen. Click the link to the next page on the top right of the list of pages. The next page will load. Print this page. Read careful what is written. The process was: 1. Warrant - right to the named quantity of land. 2. Entry - an order to a surveyor to survey a specific area of land (this amount was based on a warrant and could be the whole amount or a parcel from it. Many warrantees sold their warrant rights in various size tracts. When this was done it was called an assignment. The assignee was the new owner of the right to the named quantify of land. This happened at every step of the process until the survey had been sent to the Land Office for the grant to be written.( Before the grant is returned I have seen county court minutes where the Grantee had agreed to transfer title of the newly granted land to him to another when the grant is returned to the county. In this case the grantee has moving from the county to another state. 3. Survey by the surveyor of the "local" area. Survey was sent to the land office or Proprietors Office to have the land grant issued by the governors office. 4. The land grant (or patent) is written and returned to the surveyor's office to be delivered or picked up by the new grantee. Elijah Roye did not grant the 100a of land but for some consideration transferred the right of 100a on this named Treasury Warrant No. 765 ( probably Elijah Roye's) to Moses Henry. While a transfer is a transfer! The kind of transfer has its specific "name" and relates exactly to a step as defined by legislative acts. The paperwork follows and allows us to know exactly who had what rights, how & when. Your guy paid something to Elijah Roye for the right to the 100a. This grant language does not tell who had the right to make the entry or request the survey. Entries had recording fees and surveys were not free. Do back to the digitized card screen and click on the survey image and see what other information it relates. Watch the dates as this may indicate when your guy was in the area at that time. Read the survey carefully. The language is very clear and means just what it says! The warrant was for 650A to Elijah Roye who had selected the area for this 100a to be entered and surveyed. He assigned the survey to your guy. The assignment paper may indicate that Elijah did not live near or could not easily get to the surveyors office where his warrant was being held. If he had sent the warrant at that particular time, he would most likely written the assignment on the back of his warrant. This assignment note does not appear to be the back of a warrant. Warrants were more square like documents. NOTE: 3 men signed the original assignment note which appears to be transcribed. You are looking at images of a recording book and not original documents. The original survey and the assignment note may be in possession of LVA in Virginia Land Office Plats & Certificates. However, the warrant may not have been returned until the last survey from this warrant was sent to the land office. One needs to know to whom the last allowable acreage was granted to find the warrant. These documents are filed by alpha & year. In this case H 1797 From the website: "All of the documents that accompanied the patents, including warrants and surveys, were annually destroyed prior to 1779. Some counties (created both before and after 1779) have survey books among their records." Great website! Enjoy it! Phyllis Vannoy Spiker ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send a msg. to VASHENAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe.