Although it is no longer in print, Fairfax Harrison's book, Virginia Land Grants: A Study of Conveyancing in Relation to Colonial Politics (Richmond, 1925), remains a very valuable and comprehensible account of how the system of granting and transferring land worked. Try a good Virginia research library or your own library's Interlibrary Loan service Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia [log in to unmask] Visit the Library of Virginia's web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html