John, As noted in the taglines at the bottom of this and all other list posts, this list covers Berkeley County at any time in its history. This would include when it was part of Virginia and during colonial times. I hope this answers your question. David E. Cann wvberkel-admin@rootsweb.com Admin of the Berkeley County, West Virginia mailing list on RootsWeb List information: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/WV/berkeley.html -----Original Message----- From: wvberkel-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wvberkel-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JOHN CARTER Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 5:37 PM To: wvberkel@rootsweb.com; Sarge4You@aol.com Subject: Re: [Berkeley Co WV] (no subject) Does this list go back before WV was a state? I have family sure name Bosteyan[Boston] and other variants that lived there sometime late 1700's early 1800's