----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:14 PM Subject: [VIA-L] Robert > In a message dated 12/2/2002 4:49:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Anyway, has anyone traced and verified the line of Robert Via, > > William's brothe? > > > > Sue, > If you're referring to Robert that stayed in Hanover County I know some work > has been done on his line. As to verifying I'm not sure how well it's > documented. Hanover's a burned record county. Some records so exist however. > > Judy > I did find court rolls stating his land was secessioned (spelling) every few years up until the Revolution. So it could have been father, son, grandson all owning the same land, all with the same first name but that's just speculation. Robert wasn't that common of a name back then. I really don't even remember which county the land was in, although I did find a copy of a very old (early 1700s) map of Orange Co. which has a plot of land assigned to a Robert Viar in it. Of course, since the county lines changed so many times, there's no telling which county this plot eventually ended up in without the aid of something like AnaMap. Sue, thinking she may buy herself AnaMap for Christmas