Judy, Thank you so much for posting Fanny Ann Via's Patrick County deed and will. Such pleasure to connect her to the Vias in Hanover. There are few Ingrams that I have been able to locate in Hanover during our time frame, but I believe there were some in Henrico. Do you know where brother, James, was before he locates in Patrick? Or rather, I suppose the answer I seek is who his folks were and where he was born, which would give us Fanny Ann's background. I had always thought that Robert II or SR's deed of gift a little strange, that it was most unusual that Robert and Fanny Ann probably had only one child in an age when couples generally produced many offspring. The deed seemed to suggest that there was just one child, Robert, Jr. I wonder why he didn't provide for his younger children, or perhaps there is a lost deed or in his will, he did. It is also possible that the slaves had belonged to Robert, Jr.'s mother and were Sr.'s to use only for life. Perhaps Sr.'s deed was just reiterating and verifying this to prevent any problems. I know Robert, Jr. came away with all of Robert's 128 acres in Hanover. Of course, that will has been lost. At last I know the surname of an 18th century Hanover Via wife, even if she isn't in my line. It tells me something about Robert also. Have you access to or have you copy of an autobiographical sketch written by George W. Via of Patrick County in which he says his grandfather, William Via, married Sallie Ingram (is this Elizabeth with an unusual pet name), who was the daughter of James Ingram (wife not known) who lived "near old Union Church on Smith River?" They had five girls and two boys. Is this James the brother of Fanny Ann? George W. says that "sometime near the close of the 18th century William, James, Sallie and Nancy Via came to Patrick from Amherst, but evidently raised in Henrico County." This indeed must be the family of Fanny Ann and Robert as he lists the names of their children and their spouses, and their names correspond with those you listed with the exception of the Sallie and Elizabeth bit. George W. Via goes on to say that his father, James Via, fourth son of William and Sallie, married Mary Jordan DeHart. They had ten sons and three daughters. Is there any wonder that Amor's progeny with surname Via are all over the US! If nothing else, the family was prolific with sons. Then George W. later states that his gr. grandfather. Aaron Dehart married Elinda Dennis in Henrico. A number of the families of whom he speaks seem to be rooted in Hanover and Henrico Counties. The piece is very precise and informative naming wives and children of so very many people. I remember copying it at the Virginia Historical Society when I was in Richmond in 1976, but I do not have title page of book (misplaced, I imagine) that was published in 1926. The call number is handwritten by VHS on some of the pages. This article appears to be either from a book written by Patrick County's residents or a piece that could have come from family genealogies. I learned that the people were not mine soon enough, but the details of the many children from each generation were so knowledgeably written that I couldn't discard it. I placed it in my "other Via" files. George W. was the ninth son of a family of thirteen, having been born in 1850, near Woolwine and had written this in the 1920's apparently. He had knowledge that stretched back to the 18th century, although he did not appear to know that his great grandparents were Fanny Ann and Robert Via. William named one of his sons Robert, but there is no Fanny or Ann, and Robert is not a name that comes down in this family. Family names do not seem to be the norm among any of the many children, grandchildren, gr. grandchildren. That Fanny Ann arrived in Patrick with only one of the slaves is not really surprising. Mortality rate being so very high, it is quite possible that one died. I should look back at the 1797 Hanover PP Tax roll for that year or the next following Fanny Ann's death to see if Robert Jr. or III shows an additional one. It seems that in the Land Tax records I've read, sometimes it takes awhile for the clerks to get land transferred as soon as it seems that it should be. The Processioning records are the same way. That is one reason that it doesn't bother me for Amor's land to be Ordered to be Processioned, but the Return shows that on the scene itself was the widow Via (Margaret or Mary) or her representative. In her case it would probably have been a son. The purpose of Processioning was to be certain that everyone in each particular precinct agreed to the boundaries of his/her land; so, on appointed day the owners or representatives trooped around and either agreed or disagreed on boundaries, and agreement was not always reached. It was only indirectly for taxing purposes. Janelle