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Subject: Lord Fairfaxes, Manor of Leeds, and Northern Neck Land Grants
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:10:59 EDT

The recent discussion of, "--what/where/when is the Northern Neck?" prompts
my referencing the Library of Virginia web site for a good discussion of
same. Note especially their Research Note No. 23. The discussion provides you
good Introduction to the subject, some history (1649-1781), and then a goodly
section relating to their available land records, some of which can be
accessed on line.

Further, I happened last summer upon a nice book -- in the new Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois.

"The Fairfax Proprietary," by Josiah Look Dickinson. Warren Press, 1959.

There is a nice fold out map packeted to the back cover which locates by
number several hundred Fairfax land grants. Here I found my (5 x Great)
Grandfather with two of the Fairfax patents, one for some 200 acres in the names of
himself, his wife, and their eldest son (just born). Then a few years later,
another 200 acre grant also assigned to Grandfather and Grandmother, but
substituting the name of my (4 x Great) Grandfather (just born) for his elder
brother. These patents were not that far distant the Great Philadelphia Wagon
Road which does much to explain how the family later found their way to the
NC/SC border area where Dad and these two sons fought the Revolution. Hope
this helps. Sorry, I do not have immediate access to the above mentioned
book, being some 900 miles distant. Tom

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