Check Nugent's /Cavaliers and Pioneers/ book series for the Virginia Patent
> or Grant that John Chambers may have received. It sounds like you have
> already checked the Northern Neck Proprietary grant books (available online
> at the Library of VA web site).  Have you checked Joyner's series of books
> for Northern Neck Surveys?  John Chambers may have surveyed land that he
> assigned to someone else to carry through to the grant.   I would also want
> to see all the county deed records for land owned by this family (Orange,
> Frederick, and Berkeley Counties).  Deeds will often explain family
> relationships, etc., etc.
>
> Volume III 1695-1732 pg 192

"John Chambers, 685 acs. (Escheat L.), Surry Co., in Lawnes Cr. Par; on E.
side of the 2nd Swamp, 'twixt his own & land of John Gray;..."

Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL

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