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Deeds & Other Records

Where do we find these?
Deed Records, Land Patents, Warrants & Surveys for Fauquier County, Virginia

Where can we find these Deeds?
Item 1 - Fauquier County, Virginia Courthouse has the original records
Item 2 - Virginia State Library has microfilm copies in their Virginia Room for all to view
Item 3 - Fauquier County, Virginia Deeds 1759-1778 by John K Gott
Item 4 - Fauquier County, Virginia Deeds 1778-1785 Compiled by John K Gott
Item 6 - Fauquier County, Virginia Deed Book 10, 1788-1792T.L.C. Library Genealogy, P O Box 403369, Miami Beach, Gl 33140-1369 1800-858-8558
Item 7 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has microfilmed all of the Records and can be ordered through their local libraries.
DEEDS: The first land purchase in a county may identify the previous residence of the grantee. The land sale in a county may identify the new residence of a grantor. KNOW the terms 'grantee' and 'grantor'. When land is sold, the dower traditionally must be released. This, then, identifies the given name of the wife. Keep a record of ALL witnesses to a deed or any legal document. Frequently, these are close relatives. As research develops, these people will 'fall' into place. Some men and women used deeds to transfer property (instead of a will) prior to their death.

Where can we find these Court Records?
Item 1 - Fauquier County, Virginia Courthouse has the original records. Volume III is for Fauquier County, Virginia
Item 2 - Virginia State Library has microfilm copies in their Virginia Room for all to view
Item 3 - Fauquier County, Virginia Guardian Bonds 1759-1871 Abstracted & Compiled by John K Gott
Item 4 - Fauquier County, Virginia Court Records 1776-1782 Compiled by John K Gott

Where can we find these Minute Records?
Item 1 - Fauquier County, Virginia Courthouse has the original records. Volume III is for Fauquier County, Virginia
Item 2 - Virginia State Library has microfilm copies in their Virginia Room for all to view
Item 3 - Antient Press has Northern Neck Records
Item 4 - Fauquier Families 1759-1799 Comprehensive Indexed abstracts of Tax and Tithable Lists, Marriage Bonds, Minute, Deed, and Will Books and Others by John P Alcock. Available through Iberian Publishing Company -548 Cedar Creek Drive - Athens, Georgia 30605-3408

Where can we find these Warrants and Surveys?
Item 1 - Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys Dunmore, Shenandoah, Culpeper, Prince William, FAUQUIER and Stafford Counties (Volume 3) 1710 - 1780. Compiled by Peggy Shomo Joyner 5008 Dogwood Trail, Portsmouth, Virginia 23703.
Item 2 - Abstracts of Virginia Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys Volume IV 1697-1784 Hampshire, Berkeley, Loudoun, Fairfax, King George, Westmoreland, Richmond, Northumberland and Lancaster Counties. Compiled by Peggy Shomo Joyner 5008 Dogwood Trail, Portsmouth, Virginia 23703.
Item 3 - Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants Volume I ????-1741 Compiled by Gertrude E. Gray
Item 4 - Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants Volume II 1742-1775 Compiled by Gertrude E. Gray

"Following is a beautiful biblography of Land Records available from VIRGINIANS AND THEIR LAND by Barbara Vines Little
(bvlittle@earthlink.net ) Previously published by Julia M Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG, Missing Links: RootsWeb's Genealogy Journal, Vol. 4, No. 26, 23 June 1999."

A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gentry, Daphne S. comp., rev. by John S. Salmon. VIRGINIA LAND OFFICE INVENTORY, Third Edition. Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1988.

Harrison, Fairfax. VIRGINIA LAND GRANTS: A SURVEY OF CONVEYANCING IN RELATION TO COLONIAL POLITICS. 1925; reprint, Westminster, Md: Willow Bend Books, 1998.

Vernon, Robert. "How Land Was Granted in Colonial Virginia," CENTRAL VIRGINIA HERITAGE. vol. 12 (winter 1994) pp.1-11. Contains a list of extant county survey books.

Hughes, Sarah F. SURVEYORS AND STATESMEN: LAND MEASURING IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA, Richmond, Va.: Virginia Surveyors Foundation and Virginia Association of Surveyors, 1979.

Robinson, W. Stitt, Jr. MOTHER EARTH: LAND GRANTS IN VIRGINIA, 1607-1699 Williamsburg, Va.: n.p., 1957.

COMMONWEALTH LAND RECORDS

Bushman, Katherine G. "Minutes of the Commission Appointed to Settle Claims to Unpatented Lands on the Western Waters of Virginia, January-April 1780." AUGUSTA HISTORICAL BULLETIN. 13(1977)1:37-57, 2:26-42.

Nugent, Nell Marion. CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS, 1623-1732. 3 vols. 1934-79; reprint, Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1992.

Hudgins, Dennis. CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS: ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS AND GRANTS, 1732-1776. 4 vols. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1994-9.

"Inquisitions on Escheated Land," VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST. 19(1975): 128-136, 179-184, 255-260; 20(1976):21-28, 109-116, 169-176, 258-262; 21(1977):28-35.

MacDonald, Edgar. "Defective Surveys 1761-1799" MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY. 30(1992):318-323.

MacDonald, Edgar. "Copies of Grants Not Called For," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY. 30(1992):131-136.

Slatten, Richard. "Lodged Land Surveys: A Series," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY. 26(1988):179-194, 273-283; 27(1989):44-51,114-119, 206-215, 282-289; 28(1990):37-47.

Slatten, Richard and Edgar MacDonald. "Caveated Land Surveys" MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, 28(1990):159-164, 281-6; 29(1991):72-6.

Slatten, Richard. "Caveated Surveys Settled in the General Court, 1782-1788." MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY. 28(1990):17-26.

Slatten, Richard. "Interpreting Headrights in Colonial-Virginia Patents: Uses and Abuses," NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY. 75(1987):169-79.

NORTHERN NECK LAND RECORDS

Nugent, Nell Marion. SUPPLEMENT, NORTHERN NECK GRANTS, NO. 1, 1690-1692. Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1980.

Joyner, Peggy Shomo. ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA'S NORTHERN NECK WARRANTS & SURVEYS. 5 vols. U.S.A.:, n.p. 1985-95.

Gray, Gertrude Entz. VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS 1694-1862. 4 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1987-93.

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