Although it is no longer in print, Fairfax Harrison's book, Virginia Land
Grants: A Study of Conveyancing in Relation to Colonial Politics (Richmond,
1925), remains a very valuable and comprehensible account of how the system
of granting and transferring land worked.
Try a good Virginia research library or your own library's Interlibrary Loan
service
Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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