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MAGAZINE OFVIRGINIA 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 ThemMarriages by George W. Matthews 173

Dorothy Boyd-Rush, Ph.D.

Buckingham Excerpts from Deed Book I, 1869-1872 179Roger G. Ward

Missing Fairfax County Deed 183Wesley E. Pippenger, CO

Will the Real William Stokes Please Stand Up 187

James c. Thompson /French and Indian War Land Bounty Certificates 197VBarbara Vines Uttk, co

Records of the School Commissioners, Pittsylvania County 211

Handle with Care: County Loose PapersJohn Booth v. Thomas Stump's Heirs et al 217

Marty Hiatt, CORS

Legislative Petitions: The Ten Thousand Name Petition 221Jean Pickett Hall

Amelia County Tithables, 1743 241Dennis HU!lgins

Public Service Claims, Colonial Wars, 1774-1776 ibc3

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French and Indian War Land Bounty Certificates'(continued from Vol. 38, No.2)

Abstracted byBarbara 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 1754.2 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. 563I do here by Certify that George Underwood is inti tied to two hundred Acres oflandfor 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., 1774-1780,

Register of the Land Office, Record Group 4, Land Office Records, Archival and Information ServicesDivision, Library of Virginia .

•• PO Box 1273, Orange, VA 22960. Ms. Little is a professional researcher specializing in problemsolving using land and tax records.

'Philip Fall Taylor, A Calendar of the WaTTants for 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),440-1,513-4,548,700.

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Feby 1780. Elias X White; Test Tho Harnus, Hipkins Pittman

William White Hampshire Counry 10 August 1779 No. 47Henry Sleet and Patrick Finlay carne into Court and made oath, that WilliamWhite was a Soldier in the Virginia troops and served with them under theCommend of the late General Braddock on the expedition against Fort DeQuesnein the year 1755.... Gabriel Jones ClCt

[separate document] The within mentioned Wm White was private in Capt BulletsCompay; 1assign over all my right Title Interst & Claim to the within assignmentunto Abraham Hite ...2d June 1779; witness JHite; [signed] Henry Carryed; At aCourt held for Hampshire Counry the 10th day of August 1779. This Bill of Salefrom Wm White to Henry Curyyer and assigned from Henry Curryer and assignedfrom Henry Curryer to Abraham Hite was proved by the witnesses thereto and onthe motion of the said Hite is ordered to be Certified. Test Gabriel Jones CCu

) [verso] I oversign all my rights and Tittles of the Land ...unto Henrick Carrier. ..Aprill

10th 1773; wm + White; Witness John Waterhouss; Godfrey Lange

1 Achillis Whitlock Caroline Counry March 1780 . No. 863 V~; On proof being made to the Court that Achillis Whitlock (who is since dead)~'.?-'O served as a soldier till properly discharged in 1758...that the said bounry of land is

now vested in Jno Whitlock eldest son & heir at law of the said Achillis WhitlockeTho Jones DC

[verso] I do herby assign all my right & Title of the within Land to John GayleWitness my hand this 11 March 1780; Uohn Whitlock] Test Matthew Gayle; Seeton

.Acree

JJoseph Whitlock Henrico Counry 6 September 1779 No. 15 t/...a Soldier in the ld Virginia Regiment of regulars .... William White Clk[verso] I Joseph Whitlaw Do hereby assign the within Certificat ...Benjamin Bowlsfor and In consideration of Six pounds ...6th day of September 1779 [signed] JosephWhitlaw [wax seal] [Witnesses] John Price, Jo' B Farrar, John Stricker

John Wiley Botetourt Counry April 1780 No. 946...served as a Soldier in Capt Dickerson's company of Rangers .... David May CBC

John Wiley Montgomery Counry May 1780 No. 1076...served as a Soldier in the regular, additional Troops to the Virginia Regimentduring the Cherokee Expedition in 1760 commanded by Col Byrd being about Sixmonths .... James MCorkle

Peter Wiley Botetourt Counry April 1780...served in Capt Dickenson's Company of Rangers ....

No. 947

David May CBC

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR LAND BOUNTY CERTIFICATES

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Peter Wiley Montgomery County May 1780 No. 1092...served a Soldier in Captain John Dickersons Company of Rangers .. .for about nineMonths .... James MCorkle[verso] The within Service was preformed before the year 1764 as appeared to meby the fullest Evidence [signed] Wm Christian

Edward Wilkerson Dunmore warrant 28 April 1774 No. 832I 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 this28th Day of April 1774 [signed] Dunmore [wax seal]

To the Surveyor of /\uguOLd Fincastle County; I Certifie that no part of the Landmentioned 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 June1774; [signed] Edwd Wilkinson; JAmblerj[?]; Wm Hickman; John MClenachan

James Wilkinson Goochland County 21 Februaty 1780 No. 931...Served as a Soldier in the 2d Virginia regimt. .. [and] that the hath sold all his rightand Tittle thereto to Thomas Watkins .... Val Wood ClCur

[verso] Certify that JW Served untill properly DisbandeaGoochland March Court 1780; James Wilkinson proves that he servd till properlydischarged .... Val Wood ClCur

Jacob Williams Orange County 26 August 1779 No. 35... [served] a Soldier in Col Byrds Regement in the year 1758.... James Taylor cac[verso] Set' th 24 1779 Tickit

I Assign the within Over to Joseph Smith P me [signed] Jacob Williams; Test

Zach"Shackleford; John Embree

James Williams Greenbrier County...Servd as Corporal....

17 November 1779 No. 270

John Archer Clk

John Williams Orange County 23 September 1779 No. 34...served as a soldier in ColDByrds Regiment in the year 1758...James Taylor COC[verso] I have Recd full satisfaction for the within Ticket ofM' Jo' Smith as Witnessmy 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 VirginiaRegiment ...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