Because of the Samuel Clayton grant was a VA grant, I wondered if there were Clayton RW Warrants used in KY and they might hold useful evidences. I have outlined the search I did. I then added some other land search helps. <A HREF="http://www.sos.state.ky.us/"> http://www.sos.state.ky.us/</A> Kentucky Land Office Searchable Databases and Related Articles> Virginia Revolutionary War Warrants Database> Revolutionary War Warrants Search Enter Veterans Name: Clayton The following list was seen. Warrant Veteran Assignee 3165.0 Clayton, Henry 1337.0 Clayton, Joseph 0794.0 Clayton, Philip Clicking on these takes one to information and an image of the original warrant. For all three there are "No [identified] patents in Kentucky" In KY the RW warrants were supposed to have been surveyed in an area known as "South of the Green River". This is explained on the website. The warrant, if awarded after the death of the veteran, usually has the heirship on the face of the warrant. If transferred for consideration, the assignee is stated. If the right to land was assigned in more than one tract and there were several assignees/transfers, this information might also be on the back of the warrant. This assigneeship/transfer of right could happen at the entry, and the survey and these are noted on the warrant or by separate papers. The warrant was to have been sent to the land office when the last survey of land allowed by the warrant was sent to the land office to be granted. ( I have seen one surveyor's note to the land office that the Warrant XXXX had been returned with a precious survey.) The assignee(s) noted are those who had, for consideration to the warrantee or former assignee, the right to the land on the warrant allowing them to proceed with the land acquisition process. A contract could be written to sell the land after the survey was sent to the Land office and before the grant has been received by the grantee. I have seen one of these in county court records. The search has just begun! Go to the Library of Virginia website <A HREF="http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/index.htm"> http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/index.htm</A> Search each of the 3 RW databases. Note on the "cards" in the database when there are "images". In Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants: Philip Clayton (signature) served under Muhlenburg; Clayton gives an authorization to LT Charles Stickley.....Shenandoah Co surnames. In another BG James Wood certifies a Philip Clayton served and deserves additional land. The site stopped responding;, I do not know what the other names or RW databases might show. Now use the Land Office database at the Library of Virginia and search for every new surname and waterway and any other descriptive word that might have been on the original LVA index cards. You are looking for neighbors and friends and in-laws that you know. Watch for the Warrant # in the grants. Note the grantee(s) and date of grant. Now a trip/or search & copy request is in order to The Library of Virginia. In the Manuscript reading room request by grantee and date the files of the "Plats and Certificates" collection. If you want a copy of the back of a warrant used in KY, the KY Land Office website above gives information to order those copies. In the future images of these backs may be on the website. Enjoy the search. I have proven that an ancestor did not "touch" a tract that local family have believed he entered. I also have identified a grant for the only land a person later sold. When you can not find a grantor/seller buying the land. consider the following: 1. He acquired it by grant from the state, proprietor, the Crown. 2. He got it through probate. 2. The deed was not recorded; it may be in the "loose papers" at the court house. 3. The transfer was written on the warrant of the former owner's grant or deed. 4. The deed is recorded in the mother county. 5. The deed is recorded in the county to which the seller migrated. 6. Check all court levels in all counties the grantor and grantee lived. A few of these are private papers and not expected to be found in the public records. A deed is the property of the buyer/grantee. It was signed in person by all indicated in the recording. Watch the margin of the deed recording books for "examined & delivered". When this is usually there and one is missing it may indicate that original deed is in the loose papers at the courthouse. I trace a person who was a witness to a deed that was not "delivered". What a find to get another signature for him and in association with known family! A speaker one said that she had proven more connections by land than marriage. Enjoy the land search. Phyllis Vannoy Spiker