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Subject: [INMADISO-L] LeRoy Eastes - another key event in Tennessee
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 09:20:07 EST

Search for records in Abington VA. In 1777, VA formed the county of
Washington, which included the Holston River section overlapping the NC
claim. Many of the residents within the latter section believed they lived
in Virginia. In November of that year, affixed their signatures to a
petition protesting to the Virginia delegates the placing of the county seat
at Black's Fort (now Abington VA), My family did not sign as they did not
arrive until 1778, but his wife's family, the Webbs, from Berks Co PA,
affixed their names, George, John, Jonathan and Benjamin Webb, to it. In
1779, the disputed area was surveyed and extended, The disputed area was
found to be within the NC claim, and the county of Sullivan was erected from
it. Even though Webb records may appear in Abington during this period, they
were in the erected county of Sullivan.

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