Download or read book Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775 written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the series has abstracts of all of the grants from 1742 to 1775, a period that saw the formation and settlement of Frederick, Fairfax, Culpeper, Loudoun, Fauquier, and Dunmore (changed in 1778 to Shenandoah) counties in Virginia, and Hampshire and Berkeley counties now in West Virginia. Altogether, in more than 4,000 abstracts, about 7,500 early Virginia residents are cited, all of them listed in the index.