Using the online
database from the Library of Virginia I have been able to find land grants
associated with some of my Virginia ancestors. Because these ancestors lived in
the 1600s & 1700s it can be difficult to find records of their lives. Land
grants help to give a time and location to their lives.
Using the Library of
Virginia/Online Catalog/Land Office Grant search box I put in the Alford
surname without a first name, clicked the search button and several Alfords
showed up. I wish I could connect them
all to my family. I am confident in this finding.
John
Alford
c 1645 VA – 1710 New
Kent, VA
My 7th
great grandfather
I found two land
grants for John.
1. On 20 April 1682
in New Kent Co., VA
“410 acres on the
south side of York River beg. g&c, a corner tree of a dividend of land
formerly surveyed and patented by Colo. Hammon, standing in the Slashes of
Coshockahick.”
Land Office patents
No. 7, 1679 – 1689 (vol. 1 & 2, p. 1 – 719) p. 131 (reel 7); Part of the
index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the
Colony.
2. On 22 October 1682
in New Kent Co., VA
“150 acres on the
south side of York River and is reputed Colo. Hammonds land called by the name
Nantacooke Neck.”
Land Office patents
No. 7, 1679 – 1689 (vol. 1 & 2, p. 1 – 719) p. 179 (reel 7); Part of the
index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the
Colony.
I love the sounds of
the places the Alfords lived like ‘the Slashes of Coshockahick’ and the ‘Nantaccooke
Neck”.
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New Kent is a little over an hour from where I live. Now I wonder what these places are called today as I have never heard these names.
ReplyDeleteOn ancestry there are county maps of Virginia. The borders and counties have changed several times over the years. You would enjoy those maps.
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