MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY

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1 ~OlI1-3lr MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY Volume 38 G August e Number 3 Contents In This Issue: Records Where We Least Expect to Find Them 171 Records Where We Least Expect to Find Them Marriages by George W. Matthews 173 Dorothy Boyd-Rush, Ph.D. Buckingham Excerpts from Deed Book I, Roger G. Ward Missing Fairfax County Deed 183 Wesley E. Pippenger, CO Will the Real William Stokes Please Stand Up V French and James Indian c. Thompson War Land Bounty Certificates / Barbara Vines Uttk, co Records of the School Commissioners, Pittsylvania County 211 Handle with Care: County Loose Papers John Booth v. Thomas Stump's Heirs et al 217 Marty Hiatt, CORS Legislative Petitions: The Ten Thousand Name Petition 221 Jean Pickett Hall Amelia County Tithables, Dennis HU!lgins Public Service Claims, Colonial Wars, ibc3

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3 {Q., '1-3/3 French and Indian War Land Bounty Certificates' (continued from Vol. 38, No.2) Abstracted by Barbara Vines Little, CG" Altlwugh George Washingron accumulated a number of land patents based on land warrants for French and Indian War service, both for his service and because he purchased warrants from other participants, no bounty warrant information is found in his name in these files. Nor are there any bounty warrants listed in his name in the abstracts of the Kentucky warrants. I However, he is referenced as the commander of the regiment in a number of descriptions of service both in the Virginia bounty warrants abstracted here and in the abstracts of the Kentucky warrants. Altlwugh no reference to Washingron receiving land is found in these records, the Executive Journals of the Council record a number of petitions by Washingwn regarding land which he felt was promised by Governor Dinwiddie in his proclamation of 19 February These petitions list the names of some of the officers and soldiers of the First Virginia Regiment and slwu/d be consulted by anyone searching for individuals wlw served in the French and Indian War. George Underwood Dunmore warrant 16 April 1774 No. 563 I do here by Certify that George Underwood is inti tied to two hundred Acres ofland for his Services in the last war...and is desirous to locate the same in the County of Entry 77, Land Bounty Certificates, French & Indian War, Box 7 Stewart- Y, misc., , Register of the Land Office, Record Group 4, Land Office Records, Archival and Information Services Division, Library of Virginia. PO Box 1273, Orange, VA Ms. Little is a professional researcher specializing in problem solving using land and tax records. 'Philip Fall Taylor, A Calendar of the WaTTantsfor Land in Kentucky, Granted for Service in the French and Indian War (1917, reprinted Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc., 1994). Z Benjamin J. Hillman, ed., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, Vol. VI, June 20, 1754-May 3, 1775 (Richmond, Va.: The Virginia State Library, 1966),440-1,513-4,548,

4 ?:2... f "t~/c.i 206 MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, VOL. 38, NO.3 Feby Elias X White; Test Tho Harnus, Hipkins Pittman William White Hampshire Counry 10 August 1779 No. 47 Henry Sleet and Patrick Finlay carne into Court and made oath, that William White was a Soldier in the Virginia troops and served with them under the Commend of the late General Braddock on the expedition against Fort DeQuesne in the year Gabriel Jones ClCt [separate document] The within mentioned Wm White was private in Capt Bullets Compay; 1assign over all my right Title Interst & Claim to the within assignment unto Abraham Hite...2d June 1779; witness JHite; [signed] Henry Carryed; At a Court held for Hampshire Counry the 10th day of August This Bill of Sale from Wm White to Henry Curyyer and assigned from Henry Curryer and assigned from Henry Curryer to Abraham Hite was proved by the witnesses thereto and on the motion of the said Hite is ordered to be Certified. Test Gabriel Jones CCu 10th 1773; wm + White; Witness John Waterhouss; Godfrey Lange ) [verso] I oversign all my rights and Tittles of the Land...unto Henrick Carrier...Aprill 1 Achillis Whitlock Caroline Counry March No. 863V ~; On proof being made to the Court that Achillis Whitlock (who is since dead) ~'.?-'O served as a soldier till properly discharged in that the said bounry of land is now vested in Jno Whitlock eldest son & heir at law of the said Achillis Whitlocke Tho Jones DC [verso] I do herby assign all my right & Title of the within Land to John Gayle Witness my hand this 11 March 1780; Uohn Whitlock] Test Matthew Gayle; Seeton.Acree JJoseph Whitlock Henrico Counry 6 September 1779 No. 15t/... a Soldier in the ld Virginia Regiment of regulars... William White Clk [verso] I Joseph Whitlaw Do hereby assign the within Certificat...Benjamin Bowls for and In consideration of Six pounds...6th day of September 1779 [signed] Joseph Whitlaw [wax seal] [Witnesses] John Price, Jo' B Farrar, John Stricker John Wiley Botetourt Counry April 1780 No served as a Soldier in Capt Dickerson's company of Rangers... David May CBC John Wiley Montgomery Counry May 1780 No served as a Soldier in the regular, additional Troops to the Virginia Regiment during the Cherokee Expedition in 1760 commanded by Col Byrd being about Six months... James MCorkle Peter Wiley Botetourt Counry April served in Capt Dickenson's Company of Rangers... No. 947 David May CBC

5 «.:2., 1'3/~ FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR LAND BOUNTY CERTIFICATES 207 Peter Wiley Montgomery County May 1780 No served a Soldier in Captain John Dickersons Company of Rangers...for about nine Months... James MCorkle [verso] The within Service was preformed before the year 1764 as appeared to me by the fullest Evidence [signed] Wm Christian Edward Wilkerson Dunmore warrant 28 April 1774 No. 832 I Do hereby Certify that Edward Wilkerson is in titled to two hundred acres ofland as a Sergent...and as he is Desirous to locate the same in the county of AU1;Uola Fincastle you are hereby authorized to survey the same for him...at Williamburg this 28th Day of April 1774 [signed] Dunmore [wax seal] To the Surveyor of /\uguold Fincastle County; I Certifie that no part of the Land mentioned in the above warn hath been Surveyd; wm Preston SMC; lyh Mar 1780 [verso] I the within Edward Wilkinson do hereby assign over all my claim right title & interst of in and to the within Warrant for two hundred Acres of land to Robert Rutherford for & in consideration of Eight Pounds Virginia Money... 10th Day June 1774; [signed] Edwd Wilkinson; JAmblerj[?]; Wm Hickman; John MClenachan James Wilkinson Goochland County 21 Februaty 1780 No Served as a Soldier in the 2d Virginia regimt...[and] that the hath sold all his right and Tittle thereto to Thomas Watkins... Val Wood ClCur [verso] Certify that JW Served untill properly Disbandea Goochland March Court 1780; James Wilkinson proves that he servd till properly discharged... Val Wood ClCur Jacob Williams Orange County 26 August 1779 No [served] a Soldier in Col Byrds Regement in the year James Taylor cac [verso] Set' th Tickit I Assign the within Over to Joseph Smith P me [signed] Zach"Shackleford; John Embree Jacob Williams; Test James Williams...Servd as Corporal... Greenbrier County 17 November 1779 No. 270 John Archer Clk John Williams Orange County 23 September 1779 No served as a soldier in ColDByrds Regiment in the year James Taylor COC [verso] I have Recd full satisfaction for the within Ticket ofm' Jo' Smith as Witness my hand the 23 Day Sept 1779 [signed] John Williams Jun'; Test George Smith; Jacob Williams John Williams James City County 8 November 1779 No. 188 William Hughes deposed...that John Williams served in the first Virginia Regiment...asa Soldier under the Command of ColDWilliam Byrd... Ben C Walles ClCur [verso] I do hereby assign the Land which I am intitled to as a Soldier...to John

I received a.pdf file of the application by from Billy Reeves on 20 Jan 2012, who got it from the National Archives

Bounty Land Application for Richard E. Reeves of Henderson Co., Tenn 1852 and 1855 I received a.pdf file of the application by email from Billy Reeves on 20 Jan 2012, who got it from the National Archives