In a message dated 10/8/01 9:39:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Thanks to all who have replied to query concerning Mt. Airy. I believe the > Mt. Airy I am seeking is a plantation rather than a town. > Norma > Norma, In looking at the Archaeological Survey for Point of Rocks Park in Chesterfield Virginia, the deed history for the Cobbs, Burtons, Bollings' plantation COBBS, probably during the Bolling's tenure when the property was expanded...also came to have a portion known as Mount Airy. The first deed found by the Survey's researchers (which they admit is incomplete) that mentions Mt. Airy is in 1832 Deed Book8 29. Sale by Edward Lynch and Harriet of Maryland to William C. Greenhill of Nottoway Co.....800 acre tract kown as Cobbs and Mt. Airy ..adjacent Stratton, the river (Appomattox), Walthall, Hewlett, Moody and Stratton. Other names bordering the tract in an 1834 Deed Book Map are Traylor, Williams Beagleston & Royals. In the 1600/1700s among other families in the area were Pucketts, Locketts, Baughs, Kennon, Womacks, Featherstones, Jeffreys, Wood, Burton. It looks like whatever was Mount Airy was added by a purchase not shown in the survey between the time in 1827 when William Bolling sold 625 acres of place called Cobbs to Edward Lynch and the above 1832 deed. For map, pictures, info on Cobbs family, original patent owners (probably) of at least part of the land now in Point of Rocks Park (I think part of it bordering Ashton Creek was first Baugh land, most finally sold 1753to Bollings, who originally had only 300 acres in 1704 when John Bolling bought the land from the Burtons, according to my deed research. William Baugh sold John Bolling 300 acres in 1753, bordering Walthalls, Strattons, Bollings and Still Creek, aka Ashton Creek, the Western border of the Park). Cobbs pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cobb/ambrose.htm; see map: http://echesterfield.com/soccer/fields/por.jpg, and some pictures are here: http://www.cvfo.org/locations_parks_and_open_areas.htm). Norma, I don't know if this is closer to what you are looking for or not. I can't remember if you mentioned names in your original post. Best Regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html