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Subject:	Re: Reedy Branch, Potomac Creek
From:	"Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 13:29:48 -0400
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Any volunteers? It would be wonderful to have a plat map of Stafford.

According to Peggy Shomo Joyner's /Abstracts of Northern Neck Warrants 
and Surveys Dunmore . . . and Stafford Counties, 1710-1780 /(Portsmouth, 
Va.: the compiler, 1986), John England had a 7 Mar 1727/8 survey for 333 
acres on reedy Branch of Potomac adjacent Bryant Young near a Rocky 
Cave, James Withers and James Harvy. England had a second survey for 430 
acres on the south branches of Accokeek adjacent land Mr Augustine 
Washington bought from Michael Dermot, Thomas Norman, Jeremiah Greenham 
(bought of William, James Harvey. The surveys are available and perhaps 
by putting some of them together, you might be able to determine which 
creek was then Reedy Branch. Unhappily, Peggy did not index geographic 
features. You might also want to check the abstracts of John Mercer's 
land book in the /Magazine of Virginia Genealogy/ since he owned land in 
Stafford and many of the deeds included plats. The abstracts ran for 
about five years in volumes 34-39. Geographic names are indexed in MVG.

Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS

PO Box 1273
Orange, VA 22960
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540-832-3473

CG, Certified Genealogist, is a service mark of the Board for 
Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certified 
genealogists after periodic evaluation, and the board name is registered 
in the US Patent & Trademark Office.

On 5/9/2014 9:21 PM, Lyle E. Browning wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to narrow down the location of Reedy Branch of Potomac Creek that is mentioned in a 1709 patent to James Harvey. It is between Potomac and Accokeek Creeks. The USGS doesn't help, nor does VGNIS. There are several candidates just to complicate the issue. In theory the area is west of I-95 due to the absence of larger creeks coming off Potomac Creek. Stafford isn't in the DeedMapper Data Pool unfortunately.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lyle Browning
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