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Land Holdings in Highland County
around the time of the Revolution


The list of surveys and patents given below, and dating from before 1790, has been compiled from the records of the Surveyor's office of Augusta and in the Land Office of Virginia. The name of the person for whom the tract was surveyed or patented is followed first by the number of acres, next by the year of the survey or grant, and then by a description of its location. Unless this is followed by a capital P (for patent, the tract is a survey. Otherwise, it is a patent granted in the same year. In the following list, "adj. himself" refers to a tract surveyed or patented by the person at an earlier date.


Arbogast, Michael: 

(1) 130-1766-First right hand fork of Crabapple waters above a small survey by Cunningham-P. 1771

(2)  59-1768-Sinkhole gully in Crabbottom

(3)  98-1772-Crabbottom, adj. Himself-P. 1773 by Bernard Lantz

(4)  315-1774-Crabbottom, cor. to Naigley and Zickafoose

(5)  174-1775-Crabbottom, adj. Cunningham

(6)    193-1785-Crabbottom



Arbogast, John:  171-1785-Crabbottom



Armstrong, Robert:  112-1746-Bullpasture-branch of Bullpasture-P. 1760 by William Wilson



Ashton, Wallace:  344-1746-Bullpasture-P. 1750-(L.M. McClung)



Beathe, Joseph:  

(1)  127-1780-Crab Run-P. 1789

(2)  80-1789-Bullpasture



Bell, David:

(1)  152-1771-Straight Creek-P

(2)  250-1771-Bullpasture Mountain between John Bodkin and Charles Haynes



Bell, Joseph:

(1)  120-1787-Bullpasture Mountain between John Chestnut and William Jordan-P

(2)  511-1786-headwaters of South Straight Creek-P. 1789 (Monterey town site)



Benson, George:  263-1782-mo. Of Benson's Run-P. 1783



Benson, Irwin:  84-1789-headwaters of Dry Branch



Benson, Mathias:

(1)  115-1787-Dry Branch

(2)  95-1789---headwaters of Dry Branch



Beverage, John:

(1)  93-1780-N.W. branch. of Bullpasture.

(2)  137-1782-Carlile's Run



Black, Alexander:

(1)  250-1746-Cowpasture-P. 1750-(J. H. Byrd's)

(2)  34-1782-adj. above-P. 1784.



Black, Samuel:

(1)  167-1772-Straight Creek.

(2)  68-1772-Carlile's Run

(3)  97-1774-headwaters of Straight Creek



Blagg, William:

(1)  81-1782-n. Doe Hill

(2)  86-1786-n. Doe Hill



Bodkin, Richard:  339-1746-Bullpasture-P. 1750-(S. M. Neil's)



Bodkin, Charles:  115-1754-branch. of Bullpasture-P. 1761 by William Johnson



Bodkin, John:  162-1782-Bullpasture Mountain-n. Doe Hill



Bowman, John:  63-1785-North Fork abj. Lantz



Burner, Abranchaham:

(1)  34-1782-Crabbottom, adj. himself

(2)  180-1786-headwaters Jackson's River



Burnside, James:  75-1767-Bullpasture, adj. himself-(S.M. Neil's)



Bush, Michael:  375-1766-Crabbottom, below Hull's-P. 1768 by John Young



Carlile, John and Robert:

(1)  304-1746-Bullpasture, 1 m. S. of Clover Cr.-P. 1759

(2)  204-1746-Bullpasture, below Doe Hill-P. 1760

(3)  224-1746-Bullpasture, below Doe Hil-P. 1750 by John McCreary

(4)  300-1759-E. side Cowpasture-P.



Carlile, John:  50-1773-Bullpasture-P. 1780



Carlile, James:

(1)  220-1780-adj. himself on N. branch. of Bullpasture-P. 1784

(2)  44-1789-Bullpasture, Jordan's Run



Carlile, Robert:  65-1773-branch. of Bullpasture, and adj. himself-P. 1780



Carroll, Peter, and Jacob Gaskins:  71-1781-Jackson's River, n. Vanderpool-P. 1784



Cartwright, Jesse:  49-1786-Jackson's River, above Vanderpool and adj. Roby, Burner, and Mullenax



Chestnut, William:

(1)  197-1781-Back Creek

(2)  229-1784-Back Creek-P. 1789



Crawford, William:  136-1789-Dry Branch



Cunningham, Agnes:  200-1761-Crabbottom-P. 1765



Davis, John:  44-1781-branch. of Back Creek, opposite Cunningham-P.



Davitt, Tully:

(1)  58-1773-Bullpasture, n. Doe Hill

(2)  43-1780-adj. himself-P.



Delamontony, Samuel:  200-1746-Bullpasture, below Doe Hill-P. by John McCreary, 1759



Denison, John:  400-1783-Back Creek, adj. Lewis-P.



Devericks, Thomas:  34-1766-Shaw's F'k, just below Headwater



Dinwiddle, James:

(1)  173-1781-Jackson's River, n. Vanderpool and adj. himself

(2)  172-1782-Jackson's River.



Dinwiddie, John:

(1)  115-1769-above Vanderpool Gap-P. 1781 by Abranchaham Ingram

(2)  201-1780-Jackson's River, cor. to Estill and below Vanderpool Gap-P. 1781.



Dinwiddie, Robert:

(1)  98-1769-in Vanderpool Gap

(2)  210-1772-N F of Jackson's River.

(3)  97-1781-headwaters of Jackson's River, adj. himself-P.



Dinwiddie, William:  149-1773-headwaters of Jackson's River-P. 1781



Dixon, Thomas:  50-1788-Dry Branch-Jackson's River



Douglas, Thomas:  

(1)  200-1781-Crab Run-P. 1787 by Edward Morton

(2)  146-1782-Brushy F'k



Duffield, Robert:

(1)  49-1773-n. Doe Hill

(2)  107-1780-Bullpasture, n. Doe Hill-P. 1787



Elliott, Archibald:  364-1746-source of Blackthorn-P. 1756 by James Trimble



Ervine, Charles:  49-1781-Cowpasture-P. 1783



Ervine, Henry:  99-1784-Bullpasture, and adj. Knapp, n. Doe Hill



Ervine, James: 140-1782-Bullpasture Mountain, n. Cllover Cr. Mill



Ervine, Jared

(1)  122-1782-Cowpasture adj. himself

(2)  100-1787-headwaters of Cowpasture, adj. himself-P



Ervine, John:  150-1788-headwaters of Clover Cr. Mill Run



Estill, Wallace:

(1)  94-1761-opposite Vanderpool Gap-P.? 1770 by William Preston

(2)  100-1786-branch. of Bullpasture-P.? 1783 by Thomas Hicklin



Ferguson, Samuel:  125-1754-Bullpasture, above McDowell-P. 1767



Fleisher, Henry:

(1)  53-1788-Straight Creek

(2)  60-1788-Straight Creek n. Forks of Waters

(3)  82--1787-SB and adj. himself-P.



Fleisher, Palsor:  93-1784-SB and adj. himself-P



Frame, David:

(1)  98-1767-WF'k of Jackson's River

(2)  50-1770-headwaters of Jackson's River-P.

(3)  286-1771-headwaters of Jackson's River-P. 1773

(4)  76-1775-Cowpasture

(5)  194-1780-Jackson's River



Gaines, John-1782-Bullpasture, W. of Doe Hill



Galford, Thomas:  288-1780-n. Dinwiddle



Given, William:

(1)  329-1771-Jackson's River-P

(2)  83-1780-headwaters of Jackson's River, adj. himself-P. 1787

(3)  48-1780-Jackson's River



Good, Conrad:  44-1766-headwaters of South Fork



Graham, Christopher:  127-1782-Bullpasture-P. 1789



Graham, John:  44-1782-Bullpasture, on Jordan's Run



Green, John:  66-1786-headwaters of Bullpasture



Gregory, Mary:  188-1780-Back Creek-P



Gregory, William:  104-1780-Back Creek-P



Griffen, Benoni:  288-1782-Meadowdale-P



Gum, John:

(1)  72-1766-Crabbottom-Wimer Run-P. 1769

(2)  144-1769-Crabbottom

(3)  41-1780-Crabbottom, adj. Arbogast-P. 1784

(4)  19-1783-Crabbottom

(5)  12-1784-headwaters of Jackson's River

(6)  220-1784-Back Creek, S. of Meadowdale-P. 1784



Gum, John, Jr.:  218-1780-Crabbottom, adj. John Gum, Sr.



Gum, Isaac:

(1)  220-1774-Back Creek, S. of Meadowdale, P. 1784

(2)  200-1780-adj. himself

(3)  193-1787-headwaters of SB.-P



Gwin, David:

(1)  48-1780-Jackson's River-P. 1787

(2)  380-1780-n. headwaters of Back Creek-P. 1786

(3)  56-1781-Back Creek, adj. Samuel Gregory-P. 1787

(4)  100-1789-Jackson's River

(5)  268-1789-Dry Branch-P



Gwin, Joseph:

(1)  100-1781-Cowpasture-P. 1784

(2)  83-1783-Cowpasture



Halterman, Charles:  200-1786-Straight Creek



Harper, Matthew:  220-1746-Bullpasture, 1 m. S. of McDowell-P. 1758



Hays, Charles:  114-1768-Bullpasture Mountain, n. Doe Hill-P. 1772 by Thomas Wright



Heath, William:  200-1780-Bullpasture-P



Hempenstall, Abranchaham:  60-1773-adj. himself at Doe Hill-P. 1784 by William Wilson



Hicklin, Thomas

(1)  68-1756-Bullpasture, adj. Lewis-P

(2)  85-1773-branch. of Bullpasture, adj. Bradshaw

(3)  82-1782-Bullpasture, adj. himself

(4)  150-1783-Bullpasture, adj. himself



Hicklin, Hugh:

(1)  100-1758-branch. of Bullpasture-P.

(2)  130-1769-Cowpasture-P

(3)  

(4)  Hicklin, James:  100-1783-adj. John Hicklin



Hines, Edward:

(1)  50-1768-Bullpasture-P. 1770

(2)  174-1780-Crab Run, adj. his late father's place-P. 1784



Holman, William:  265-1746-Bullpasture, adj. McCreary



Hughart, Thomas

(1)  200-1788-Big Valley, headwaters of Bolar Run-P. 1789

(2)  95-1780-Big Valley-P



Hull, Peter:

(1)  97-1772-headwaters of Jackson's River, at "Osten's Camp"-P. 1773

(2)  160-1781-Crabbottom, adj. himself-P

(3)  341-1782-Crabbottom, adj. himself-P

(4)  198-1783-Crabbottom

(5)  198-1783-Crabbottom

(6)  157-1785-Straight Fork?

(7)  115-1785-Crabbottom

(8)  32-1787-headwaters of North Fork. On an "old path"



Hull, George:  270-1781-adj. himself and Isaac Gum



Ingram, Abranchaham:

(1)  176-1780-headwaters of Jackson's River, adj. Lewis-P. 1781

(2)  115-1781-above Vanderpool and Frame's-P

(3)  258-1782-headwaters of Jackson's River

(4)  139-1786-Crabbottom



Janes, William:

(1)  131-1781-Straight Creek

(2)  192-1783-Straight Creek

(3)  190-1788-Straight Creek

(4)  190-1788-Straight Creek, between himself and Evick



Johnson, William:  115-1761-branch. of Bullpasture



Johnston, Bartholemew:  93-1783-headwaters of Jackson's River adj. Ingram



Johnes, Henry:  131-1789-branch. of Cowpasture



Jordan, Andrew:  188-1786-South Fork, adj. himself



Killingsworth, Richard:  93-1782-Bullpasture Mountain, adj. John Graham-P. 1784



Kilpatrick, William:  121-1782-Harper's Run, E. side Bullpasture



Kilpatrick, Andrew:

(1)  36-1782-Jackson's River, at King's bottom-P

(2)  69-1783-Jackson's River, adj. Wiley



Kilpatrick, James:  111-1783-Jackson's River adj. Wiley



Knapp, Moses:  155-1781-Bullpasture, W. of Doe Hill



Knox, Robert:  88-1775-Bullpasture, adj. first Bodkin place



Lantz, Bernard:

(1)  98-1766-SB, above homestead-P. 1773

(2)  56-1769-Crabbottom-P. 1771

(3)  84-1769-Crabbottom, between himself and Gum-P.

(4)  50-1772-Crabbottom, adj. himself

(5)  395-1774-Crabbottom, adj. William Cunningham and Jacob Tress-P. 1781

(6)  98-1774-Crabbottom-P. 1781

(7)  54-1785-Crabbottom, at "Fallen Timbers"



Lantz, Conrad:  56-1785-Crabbottom, adj. Bernard Lantz and Bowman



Largent, James:  212-1746-Bullpasture



Lewis, Andrew:

(1)  348-1746-Bullpasture (W. P. B. Lockridge's)-P. 1750



Lewis, Thomas:  1300-1763-the "Valley" of Back Creek, opposite John Miller-P



Lewis, William:

(1)  110-1763-Back Creek, opposite Stephen Wilson's and on an "old road that leadeth to
Greenbranchier"-P

(2)  270-1763-Vanderpool-P



Lockridge, Andrew:  32-1784-Bullpasture



Lowe, Christopher:  98-1766-headwaters of Cowpasture---P. 1769 by James Young



Malcomb, Joseph:

(1)  161-1780-Bullpasture-adj. Robert Carlile

(2)  24-1782-Bullpasture, adj. himself

(3)  130-1784-Bullpasture, headwaters Carlile Run-P. 1787



Martin, Lewis:  131-1781-Cowpasture, adj. himself-P. 1789 by Henry Jones



Martinearly, James:  70-1785-Bp, at Blue Spring



Matheny, Luke:  130-1789-Back Creek



Mathew, David:  184-1773-Bullpasture__P



Mathews, Sampson and George:  232-1773-Bullpasture, adj. Bodkin-P



McCamie, James:  161-1787-N. W. branch. Bullpasture-P.



McCandless, Alexander:  144-1754-branch. of Bullpasture



McCandless, William:  73-1782-Bullpasture, opposite John Bodkin-assigned (1) to John Painter, (2) to Tully
Davitt in 1785



McClellan, William:  96-1768-Cross Run at headwaters of Bullpasture



McCoy, John:  (1)-118-1782-Bullpasture, adj. himself-P. 1784



McCoy, Oliver:  100-1789-Crab Run



McCreary, John:

(1)  280-1746-Bullpasture, below Doe Hill-P. 1760

(2)  224-1750-Bullpasture-P

(3)  200-1759-Bullpasture-P



McCreary, Robert:  30-1783-Cowpasture-P. 1784



McDougall, John:  66-1773-Straight F'k of Bullpasture-P. 1773



McMullen, Robert:

(1)  125-1773-Bullpasture, adj. Duffield

(2)  150-1782-Bullpasture, adj. Andrew Yeager



Miller, James:  250-1746-Bullpasture, between Bodkin and Harper



Miller, William:  130-1754-Crab Run-P. 1763 by William Preston



Miller, Hugh:

(1)  220-1767-branch. of Bullpasture-P.? 1784 by James Carlile

(2)  75-1767-Carlile Run



Miller, Patrick:

(1)  45-1771-Cowpasture, adj. himself-P. 1773

(2)  58-1783-Cowpasture-P. 1787



Miller, John:

(1)  96-1780-Shaw's Fork

(2)  58-1780-Bullpasture, adj. himself and Hines-P. 1784

(3)  232-1782-Bullpasture, adj. himself-P. 1784

(4)  286-1760-Cowpasture-P.



Montgomery, John:  30-1765-Bullpasture-P. 1769



Montgomery, James  54-1757-Jackson's River



Moore, David:  200-1759-Bolar Run



Moore, Benjamin:  150-1789-Crab Run



Morrow, James:  210-1769-Jackson's River, above Vanderpool



Morton, Edward:  200-1787-Crab Run, adj. Joseph Bates-P



Mullenax, John:

(1)  110-1781-Crabbottom, adj. Arbogast-P. 1784

(2)  196-1785-Jackson's River, adj. Roby and Dinwiddie



Murce, Robert:  116-1782-Bullpasture Mountain, headwaters of Burdie Run



Naigley, Palsor:  68-1768-Crabbottom-P. 1773



Naigley, George:  142-1774-Crabbottom



Newell, William:  32-1784-Bullpasture, below John Davis-P



Nicholas, George:

(1)  67-1770-SB

(2)  123-1780-SB, at Spruce Run-P. 1782

(3)  43-1784-Straight Creek-P. 1789



Oliver, John:  125-1782-Jackson's River-P



O'Neil, Thomas:  80-1789-Carlile's Run



Parsons, Thomas:  200-1757-SB. (W. E. Fleisher's)-P.



Patton, Matthew:

(1)  17-1774-Jackson's River, adj. himself-P. 1781

(2)  82-1773-Mill Run of North Fork, opposite Crabbottom-P



Peebles, John

(1)  99-1780-branch. of Cowpasture-P. 1781

(2)  193-1782-Bullpasture, at Clover Cr.-P. 1783

(3)  281-1782-Bullpasture Mountain, opposite George Benson-P. 1783



Pender, John-73-1783-n. Doe Hill and adj. Hiner



Penn, Matthew:  250-1782-Shaw's F'k-P. 1784



Poage, John:  153-1780-Back Creek, adj. William Cunningham-P



Preston, William:  94-1770-Jackson's River, at Stony Lick-P



Price, William:

(1)  130-1754-Cowpasture, at a big spring-P. 1769 by Hugh Hicklin

(2)  50-1754-Bullpasture Mountain-P.? 1780 by John Carlile



Pullin, Loftus:

(1)  321-1746-Bullpasture (Saunders place)-P. 1758

(2)  400-1782-Crab Run, adj. himself-P. 1783



Redmond, Samuel:

(1)  120-1781-PB Mountain between John Chestnut and William Jordan

(2)  92-1786-Cowpasture, adj. Morton and Martin



Redmond, John:  8-1787-Cowpasture



Reynolds, Job:  200-1775-headwaters of Cowpasture



Richardson, Robert:  55-1787-Cowpasture



Rider, William:  176-1780-Back Creek-P. 1789



Robertson, Peter:

(1)  95-1786-Jackson's River

(2)  65-1789-Back Creek-P



Robinson, Henry, James Wood, Thomas and Andrew Lewis

(1)  175-1746-Bullpasture, above Harper-P. 1750 by John Brown

(2)  281-1746-Bullpasture, 2 m. below Clover Cr. P. O.-P. 1750 by William Wilson

(3)  286-1746-Cowpasture-P. 1750 by Peter Wright



Roby, Patrick M.:  70-1789-Jackson's River, abve Vanderpool



Schoolcraft, John:  53-1766-Straight Creek-P. 1771 by Bernard Lantz



Schoolcraft, Mathias:  130-1766-SB, below Crabbottom-P. 1771 by Michael Arbogast



Seybert, Nicholas:

(1)  233-1780-Straight Creek, adj. himself

(2)  180-1780-Straight Creek, adj. himself-P. 1781

(3)  294-1781-Straight Creek-n. Monterey-P. 1782

(4)  317-1781-Straight Creek-P. 1782-sold to Geo. Evick

(5)  1420-1786-at Hightown

(6)  110-1788-Straight Creek

(7)  530-1788-Crabbottom

(8)  300-1788-Straight Creek-n. Evick

(9)  130-1789-Crab Run



Skillern, George:  95-1768-Bolar Run-P. 1780- by Thomas Hughart



Slaven, John:  191-1781-Meadowdale



Smith, Abranchaham:

(1)  82-1769-headwaters of Crabbottom-P. 1771

(2)  170-1773-Crabbottom-P. 1774

(3)  198-1780-Crabbottom-P.



Smith, Abranchaham and Joseph Skidmore:

(1)  390-1775-Crabbottom, adj. Hul

(2)  193-1775-Crabbottom, adj. Hull-P. 1787 by Isaac Gum

(3)  290-1775-Crabbottom-P. 1781 by John Skidmore

(4)  400-1775-Crabbottom, above a cold spring-P. 1784 by Abranchaham Burner

(5)  39-1780-Crabbottom-P



Snedicore, Christopher:  172-1784-Carlile Run-P. 1788



Steuart, William:

(1)  65-1769-Cowpasture, 2 m. above Williamsville

(2)  122-1782-Bullpasture Mountain on road to John Hicklin-P. 1784

(3)  177-1786-Bullpasture, at Ferguson's Run

(4)  115-1786-Bullpasture, at Ferguson's Run



Summers, Paul:  50-1781-Bullpasture, adj. Hughes-P. 1782



Sweet, Timothy:  32-1768-Straight Creek, above Frame's cabin-P. 1784 by Abranchaham Hempenstall



Townsend, Ezekiel:  42-1780-Back Creek, and cor. to Ephraim Bates-P. 1789



Townsend, John:  6-1784-Back Creek, n. Alexander Hamilton and Roger Hickman



Trimble, James:

(1)  364-1756-headwaters of Bullpasture-P

(2)  300-1761-Crabbottom-P-sold to Peter Hull

(3)  330-1761-Crabbottom-P-sold to Peter Hull

(4)  85-1766-Crabbottom-P-sold to Peter Hull



Vandyne, Jacob:  90-1780-Bullpasture, above Hempenstall-P. 1782 by John Gaines



Wade, Dawson:

(1)  24-1767-Bullpasture, adj. himself

(2)  125-1767-branch. of Bullpasture-P

 

Wade, John:  136-1781-Back Creek-P. 1783



Wagoner, Christian:  89-1780-Crabbottom, Middle F'k.-P



Weron, Abijah:

(1)  125-1783-Back Creek, adj. John Gum

(2)  116-1783-Jackson's River, adj. Ingram



Wiley, Robert:

(1)  78-1773-Dry Branch, and adj. himself

(2)  29001780-Jackson's River-P



Wiley, Alexander:

(1)  200-1780-Dry Branch-P. 1782

(2)  91-1782-Jackson's River, above King's Bottom-P. 1782



Wilson, Hackland:  74-1754-headwaters of Cowpasture-P. 1765 by George Wilson



Wilson, William (a)  281-1750-Bullpasture-P



Wilson, William (b) 

(1)  100-1754-Jackson's River-P. 1756

(2)  304-1760-Jackson's River-P

(3)  92-1773-Bolar Run

(4)  149-1773-Jackson's River, adj. himself

(5)  400-1781-Jackson's River, adj. himself



Wilson, William:

(1)  112-1760-n. Doe Hill-P.

(2)  112-1761-n. Doe Hill-P

(3)  112-1781-Bullpasture, at Carlile Run-P. 1782

(4)  44-1781-Bullpasture, n. Doe Hill, adj.Elibab Wilson



Wilson, Samuel:

(1)  167-1768-Straight Creek n. Monterey

(2)  63-1768-Carlile Run

(3)  97-1768-H'd of South Straight Creek-P. 1773 by Peter Hull

(4)  66-1768-headwaters of Crab Run-P. 1773-by John McDougall

(5)  62-1768-headwaters of Straight Creek and Crab Run-P. 1782 by Ralph Wilson

(6)  86-1773-at Doe Hill and adj. himself-P



Wilson, Stephen:

(1)  234-1760-Jackson's River-P.

(2)  350-1770-Jackson's River.

(3)  102-1780-Jackson's River.



Wilson, John:

(1)  60-1773-Jackson's River, adj. himself-P. 1780

(2)  380-1788-headwaters of Bolar Run-P. 1788

(3)  130-1789-Bolar Run-P

(4)  175-1789-Bolar Run-P



Wilson, George:

(1)  316-1758-Cowpasture-P

(2)  74-1765-headwaters of Cowpasture-P



Woods, John:  82-1786-Bullpasture Mountain-(assignee of Robert McMullen)



Wright, Thomas:  114-1772-Bullpasture Mountain E. of Doe Hill-P



Yeager, George:

(1)  144-1782-Bullpasture, at Burdie Run and cor. to Robert McMullen-entered by William Gwin, 1767

(2)  45-1787-Back Creek, cor. to Adam Harper,



Young, John:  375-1768-Crabbottom, below Hull-P.



Young, James:  98-1769-headwaters of Crabbottom



Zickafoose, Peter:

(1)  250-1772-Crabbottom, cor. to Arbogast-P. 1789

(2)  218-1781-Bullpasture, adj. Robert Carlile

(3)  106-1782-Bullpasture, adj. himself

(4)  112-1785-Crabbottom-P. 1789

(5)  40-1786-adj. himself

(6)  78-1786-n. Doe Hill

(7)  82-1786-Crab Run, n. Beathe

(8)  250-1789-Crabbottom-P


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