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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