 Acres, in one or more tracts, on the head branches of James River to the West and Northwestward of the Cow Pasture, on seating thereon one Family for every Thousand Acres, and as the said Lands are very remote and lying among the great North Mountains,...  Annals of Bath County, Virginia - Page 13by Oren F. Morton - 1918 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1875 - 732 pages
...Northwestward of the Cow Pasture, on seating thereon one Family for every Thousand Acres, and as the faid Lands are very remote and lying among the great North...Petitioners humbly pray Your Honours will grant them fix years time to feat the fame and your petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray — 1728 June... | |
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1875 - 740 pages
...humbly pray your Honours to grant him an order to take up Fifty Thousand Acres, in one or more tracts on the head branches of James River to the West and Northwestward...thereon one Family for every Thousand Acres, and as the faid Lands are very remote and lying among the great North Mountains, being about Two Hundred Miles... | |
 | Jos. A. Waddell - Augusta County (Va.) - 2009 - 562 pages
...pray your Honours to grant him an order to take up Fifty Thousand Acres, in one or more tracts, on the head branches of James River to the West and Northwestward...Mountains, being about Two Hundred Miles at least from of the Valley to resist, on September 6, 1736, William Gooch, "Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-m-Chief... | |
 | Joseph Addison Waddell - Augusta County (Va.) - 1902 - 572 pages
...pray your Honours to grant him an order to take up Fifty Thousand Acres, in one or more tracts, on the head branches of James River to the West and Northwestward...will grant them six years' time to seat the same." Whether or not the petition was granted does not appear ; but it shows that the country west of Staunton,... | |
 | John Walter Wayland - Social Science - 1907 - 292 pages
...History and Government of West Virginia, pp. 40-42; Kercheval's History of the Valley, pp. 46, 51. the head branches of James River to the West and Northwestward of the Cow Pasture," with a view to procuring settlers for the same.2 Whether the petition was granted or not does not appear;... | |
 | John Walter Wayland - Germans - 1907 - 296 pages
...Robert Brooke, Jr., James Mills, William Lewis, and Beverly Robinson petitioned for 50,000 acres, "on the head branches of James River to the West and Northwestward of the Cow Pasture."31 This tract lay beyond the Valley, in the present counties of Highland and Bath. Whether... | |
 | Oren F. Morton - Alleghany County (Va.) - 1923 - 256 pages
...River, five planters of Tidewater petitioned the Governor and his Council to be granted 50,000 acres on "the head branches of James River to the west and northwestward of the Cowpasture." It seems somewhat curious to read of an attempt to colonize the valley of the James above... | |
 | Carrie Hunter Willis, Etta Belle Walker - Shenandoah National Park (Va.) - 1907 - 336 pages
...Robert Brooke, Jr., James Mills, William Lewis, and Beverly Robinson petitioned for 50,000 acres, "on the head branches of James River to the West and Northwestward of the Cow Pasture."31 This tract lay beyond the Valley, in the present counties of Highland and Bath. Whether... | |
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