Concerning the following article:
* "From Outpost to Courthouse: Plotting Brentsville," by Pamela
Myer Sackett, a history of the settlement and development of the Brent
Town tract, a 30,000 acre land grant in western Prince William, that
dates back to 1687. In 1822 a new town within it became the seat of
county government.
at:
http://www.pwcgov.org/library/relic/reliquary/pwr0403.pdf
Readers who consider the acticle on the Brentville Courthouse in "old" Prince
William of scholarly significance should check my article in ATAVUS,
March/April 2003. ATAVUS is the on-line journal of Burke's Peerage and
Gentry, http://www.burkes-peerage.net, and available on individual or library
subscription.
The article is "The Stuart Family of Virginia -- Friends of Robert E. Lee,
famous Southern General".
Avon Edward Foote, University of North Alabama, Huntsville-Decatur-Florence
and Shelby's kinsman
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>* "From Outpost to Courthouse: Plotting Brentsville," by Pamela
>Myer Sackett, a history of the settlement and development of the Brent
>Town tract, a 30,000 acre land grant in western Prince William, that
>dates back to 1687. In 1822 a new town within it became the seat of
>county government.
>* Vital statistics of Prince William men who registered for the
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