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This collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Land Grants, RHS Coll. 0067, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format.
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies and originals of 18th and 19th century land grants for acreage in Rockbridge County, Augusta County, Bath County, and other areas in southwestern Virginia. Three folders relate to the Borden land grant, which established Rockbridge County. There is a fragment of an undated, handwritten copy of the Borden land grant. Other folders related to the Borden grant include historical analysis and recounting of the development of the grant by E.P. Tompkins. Some land grants pre-date the Borden grant. Folders with the parenthetical note of "Copy" only include photocopies of the original land grants. The Trimble land grants can be found in oversized drawer 33.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Borden family
- Land grants
- Land grants -- British colonies
- Tompkins, Edmund Pendleton
- Virginia -- Augusta County
- Virginia -- Bath County
- Virginia -- Rockbridge County
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Anderson, Jr., David
- Anderson, Robert P.
- Anderson, William Alexander
- Anderson, William C.
- Beverley, William
- Borden, Benjamin, Sr.
- Bowyer, John
- Buchanan, John H. (John Hall)
- Culton, J. Woods (Joseph Woods)
- Dunlap, Robert W.
- Dunlap, Samuel Jr.
- Martin, James Wellford, Jr.
- McDowell, John, 1706-1742
- Morrison, Robert Culton
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary
- Randolph, Beverley
- Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann)
- Tompkins, Edmund Pendleton
- Wilson, William
- Wood, James Schenier
- Woods, Richard
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Virginia -- Augusta County
- Virginia -- Bath County
- Virginia -- James River
- Virginia -- Rockbridge County
- Virginia -- South River
Container List
This file contains a land grant for William A. Anderson for fifty five and a half acres of land in Rockbridge County along the South River. The file also includes a typescript document verifying the original land grant's validity, certified by the Commonwealth of Virginia's Land Office in Richmond, as well as a handrawn map of the area.
This file includes a fragment of a land grant for William Beverley for one hundred and fifty six acres in Augusta County, VA in exchange for "twevle pound fifteen schillings" from 1749. Also includes photocopy of the grant fragment. Notes presence of Beverley Manor.
This file consists of a photocopy of a land grant for Andrew H. Bird for two hundred and twenty two acres in Bath County.
This file contains two copies of E.P. Tompkins article on the Borden Grant, as well as a number of Lexington New Gazette articles on the same topic.
This file consists of a typescript manuscript of the Borden Grant article by E.P. Tompkins. Also includes a photo of an annotated map of the Borden Land grant. Also includes a list of settlers who recieved the first Borden deeds between 1741 and 1743.
This file contains a fragment of a copy of the Borden Grant, as well as a photocopy of the fragment.
This file contains a photocopy of a land grant for 250 acres of Bath County for Andrew Bowlands.
This file consists of a handwritten copy of a land grant for William Crosswait for a plot of land in Orange County for forty shillings.
This file consists of a land grant for James Gore for sixty eight acres of land in Rockbridge County.
This file contains a typescript copy of information related to a land grant granted to John Miller, for land in Botetort and Rockbridge County, Virginia of about five thousand acres. The copy includes information on bordering properities and their ownership.
This file contains a photocopy of a land grant to John Oliver for 102 acres in Augusta County, Virginia.
This file consists of two copies of a land grant for one hundred acres in Rockbridge County near Buffalo Creek to John Peoples, as well as a note concerning the contents of the land grants from a Peoples family descendant.
This file consists of two land grant records. The first is to James Trimble for land in Augusta County, and the second is to Alexander Trimble for land in Rockbridge County. Signed by James Wood, governor of Virginia.
This file consists of a photocopy of a land grant for John Vance for 54 acres of land in Augusta County, Virginia.