It might make a difference as to the status of NC at that time, and if  
the NC areas mentioned were within the disputed VA/NC boundary.

You would think that the 'of Nansemond County' would be followed by  
Virginia at some point if the land were in another state at that time.

The fact that the grants are recorded in NC is interesting. Is your  
grant/deed found in the Virginia deedbooks? Could it be recorded in  
both states, I wonder?

Janice



On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:17 PM, George A Williams <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> Thank you for the clarification on several points.  The dearth of  
> vital information due to the several burnings of records has made  
> ancestor hunting a very difficult undertaking.  Thank goodness for  
> land records tho they are of a later date than I first sought.   
> George A. Williams
> ---- Steve Stevens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Nansemond County was first established as Upper Norfolk County in  
>> 1637 from
>> the western part of New Norfolk County. The name change to Nansemond
>> (Nansimum) occurred in 1646. The county's name derived from the  
>> Nansemond
>> Indians, who lived in the area in the seventeenth century. In 1769  
>> the first
>> of two transfers of territory from Nansemond to Isle of Wight  
>> County took
>> place when all lands west of Chuckatuck Creek went to the latter.  
>> In 1772
>> the territory known as Rascow's Neck was also transferred to Isle  
>> of Wight
>> administration. In 1785 the portion of the county south of the  
>> Blackwater
>> and Nottoway rivers went to Southampton County. Nansemond County was
>> abolished as a county in July 1972 when it became the independent  
>> city of
>> Nansemond. Two years later, in 1974, Nansemond City merged with the
>> independent city of Suffolk and took the name of the latter.  
>> Nansemond's
>> records have suffered from multiple destructions. The first  
>> occurred in
>> April 1734 , when a fire at the home of the county clerk destroyed  
>> most of
>> the records stored there. Some deeds and wills were rerecorded, but  
>> the
>> records again were destroyed when British infantry burned the  
>> entire town of
>> Suffolk, including the clerk's office, on 13 May 1779. What  
>> survived this
>> disaster faced a fire of unknown origin which swept through the  
>> clerk's
>> office on 7 Feb. 1866. The remaining few records are now housed  
>> with those
>> of the City of Suffolk.
>>
>> Perhaps if you contact someone at this link they may help you:
>>
>> http://www.nansemond.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=2
>>
>> Steve Stevens
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "macbd1" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 6:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] location of point
>>
>>
>>> Along with a mutual friend, Sara Patton (if you are indeed the  
>>> person I
>>> suspect), you once helped me so I have tried to return the favor  
>>> -- but to
>>> no avail with your exact spelling.  Various search engines keep  
>>> trying to
>>> change the name to Chataway, of no help, even though I try to limit
>>> searches to colonial times.  If this place-name is from a court  
>>> record can
>>> you relate the source, person's name and particulars as possible  
>>> help?
>>> Are you trying to identify a property location?  If so, maybe  
>>> there are
>>> other leads?
>>>
>>> Neil McDonald
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "George A Williams" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 11:15 PM
>>> Subject: [VA-ROOTS] location of point
>>>
>>>
>>>> Do you know of a place called Chatawatksy point or lake?  I  
>>>> appears to
>>>> have been in lower Nansemond county SW in 1650-1700.  Thanks,  
>>>> George A.
>>>> Williams
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