I understood that 2 gggg uncles on my Channell side got federal grants in Licking Co. Ohio in early 1800s. Since they were not my direct line I never checked it further, but a lot of Rev. veterans from Va. settled around there. I know they were not Virginia land grants as they were in Kentucky. The fact that land bought from the state of Va. was called a land grant has led several to believe these were Rev grants by mistake as I am sure you are aware of, Nedra. Jean

Until 1792 Kentucky was part of Virginia. "In 1777 Fincastle County, Virginia's General Assembly divided Fincastle County into three parts and created Washington, Montgomery, and Kentucky Counties. The act creating these counties described Kentucky County as being "to the south and westward of a line beginning on the Ohio at the mouth of Great Sandy creek and running up the same and the main, or northeasterly, branch thereof to the Great Laurel Ridge of Cumberland Mountain, then south westerly along the said mountain to the line of North Carolina." In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into three counties -- Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. Within just a few years, six more counties had been carved out of those three. Between 1784 and 1792, people living in those counties held ten conventions on the question of statehood; on 18 December 1789 Virginia's General Assembly passed an act allowing Kentucky to apply for statehood and on 1 June 1792, those nine counties became a state, with the full consent of Virginia. " Karen in FL Researching: Carr, Enoch, Ernst, Harness, Knappenberger, Neff, Orahood, Parker, Piper, Stump, Yoakum, Zane --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Thanks Nedra and Jean for clarifying this. Becky ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Loudin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [WVPENDLE] Day family and land grants > I understood that 2 gggg uncles on my Channell side got federal grants > in Licking Co. Ohio in early 1800s. Since they were not my direct line I > never checked it further, but a lot of Rev. veterans from Va. settled > around there. I know they were not Virginia land grants as they were in > Kentucky. > > The fact that land bought from the state of Va. was called a land grant > has led several to believe these were Rev grants by mistake as I am sure > you are aware of, Nedra. > > Jean > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > Genealogy without documentation is mythology! >