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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] Fairfax's men were not surveying an un-settled country.
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:18:20 -0500

I had the good fortune,when I first started studying Upper Va\WV to
read a couple
pages on the Hite-Fairfax land suits. Usually winners write the history,
but this
was written from the Hite viewpoint. [And I may be remembering the wrong
surname. -
Van Meter?]
Here in sw Ohio the 1st surveyors, O'Bannion,Massie,Lytle were surveying
unsettled
country-except for Indians, hunters,trappers etc.
That's not the case in Upper Va west of the Blue Ridge. The Va government
granted lands
about 1730 over the protests of Fairfax's agents. And Fairfax sued in
1733 . And won,
1748-49. [dates roughly correct]. Then came the boy,Washington, and
Glenn, etc to
survey a partially settled country. And the maps of FAIRFAX lots may,or
may not show the
original settlers. What they show is men,who agreed to buy [again?] from
Fairfax. Some portion
of each neighborhood moved to the western Carolina's. Some portion in
each neighborhood
had been squatters,and,if they bought from Fairfax, it was their 1st
purchace. None knew the
boy Washington would be a hero as a man.
Now,I have maybe made a error. I thought it was the French and Indian
war trubles that
drove Andrew Sandusky east to Love's Gap,in North Mt, w Rocingham Co,Va
[was then Augusta
Co,Va]. Maybe it was Fairfax's surveyors?
How much power at enforcement of land titles daid a few of Fairfax's
surveyor's and agent have on
the South Banch valley. I guess maybe [?] Col Joseph Neville, was
FAIRFAX'S agent,at times.
Who-what was his muscle of enforcement. ?
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