Small Notebook - Magazine of Virignia Genealogy, Part 3

Chiarello, Susan. "Hanover County 1763 Quit Rent Roll," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2011, p. 5+. [[Peter Lyons?], Samuel Gist, Hanover County, Virginia, 1763 Rent roll, Folder G.II, British Public Record Office Class A.O. 13/30, Loyalist Claims, Series II-Virginia, British Public Claims, Colonial Records Project, Reel 252, LVA, Richmond.]

Page 5 - . . . Samuel Gist left a considerable estate when he returned to Great Britain during the War. For decades following the war, he petitioned he government for restoration of his considerable fortune. This list was one item found among his many papers. 

Quit rents are fees paid by Virginia landowners to the King of England or to Lord Fairfax if the land fell within his proprietary. Extant quit rent rolls are rare in Virginia, especially outside the Fairfax Proprietary. This roll is among the last of such rolls, since few were collected after 1763 when the Stamp Act was enacted.  For those researching in colonial Hanover or even post Revolutionary War, it might be wise to at least check the papers in Gist's claim for possible memorials from Hanover residents. 

There are several inconsistencies. At the beginning of the roll the unnamed sheriff states that the roll is for 1760; however, there is a column for 1763 which appears to be the year that these quit rents were collected. Also, next to some individuals names are years with acreage next to the years. This appears to be the last year that the quit rents were collected for that person and the

Book Purge - Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Dobson, David. The Original Scots Colonis of Early America 1612-1783, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. 1989.

Page vi - The record for each individual contains a maximum of twenty-three points of information in the following order: name, date of birth/baptism, place of birth, occupation, place of education, cause of banishment (where applicable), residence [res], names of parents [pts], date of emigration and whether voluntarily shipped [sh] or involuntarilty transported [tr], port of embarkation, destination, name of ship, place of arrival [arr], date of arrival, place of settlement, name of spouse, names of children, date of death, place of death, where buried, probate record & source citation. 

I've excluded the Darien Colony settlers and most of the island settlements such as Barbados, Jamaica and Leeward Islands. 

Book Purge - The Story of Winchester in Virginia

Morton, Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia: The Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2001.  First published in 1925.

p. 22 The business quarter of Winchester lies in the basin of the little stream known as Town Run. It is therefore depressed, but the gradual improvement of the streets and lots has made it almost level throughout. In every direction is slightly rising ground; For Hill in the north, Church Hill in the east, Potato Hill in the south and Academy Hil and Powell's Ridge in the west. But these elevations are gentle in ascent, and are broadtopped belts of tableland rather than tre hills. Even the tower of the Handley schol does not rise high enough to permit a quite satisfactory examination of the field of view. . . . 

Running twenty miles southward, a little more than twenty miles northward, and a similar distance east and west, lies the Lower Shenandoah Valley, as distinguished from the Middle Valley between Strasburg and Harrisonburg.  To speak accurately, it is not a true valley, but a long and relatively narrow plain, separated by the narrow rampart of the Blue Ridge from the plain of Piedmont Virginia. The watercourses around Winchester are not tributaries of the Shenandoah, bu turn directly to the Potomac.

[Shenandoah River flows from southwest to northeast entering the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry, WV.  The "upper river" is in the south, the "lower river" is in the north.]

p. 31 [Lord Fairfax owned land around Winchester and gave out 99 year leases which allowed him to

Ahnentafel #482 - (--?--) Bruce

(--?--) Bruce

Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown

Buried: Unknown

Married: Unknown

Records / Possibilities:

1656 - Lancaster Co., VA - Andrew Gillson brought over Sarah Smart, Eliza Winslow, Anne Thornton, Katherine Golding, Anthony Edwards, William Bruce, John (--?--), Thomas Pool, Edward Paggett, Charles Blurteend, John Sherrine - too early to be definitive connection

1692 - April 3 - Mary Bruse, daughter of Henry & Mary Bruse, born. 

1712 - May 7 - Richmond Co., VA - Depositions of Henry Bruce aged 48 and his wife Mary aged 47, recorded in Richmond Co., Had son William Bruce born 31 Oct. 1689. 

Notebook - Virginia #2, Part 1

Crozier, William. Virginia County Records, Vol. I Spotsylvania County, 1721-1800, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1971

Robertson, Robinson, Maulding, Shepard, Breeden, Beazley, Jones, Minor, Taylor, Taliaferro, Morgan

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Heavener, Ulysses. German New River Settlement: Virginia, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1976.

The First Settlement Beyond the Alleghanies - The caption that furnishes the subject for the first chapter of this narration, as above, is not original with the writer, but has been used by other writers and historians as referring to "Draper Meadows" settlement, as well as to be used in reference to the whole settlement of southwest Virginia; but more especially the "Middle New River Settlements."  The purpose of the writer is to give the subject a restricted sense. Not in the spirit of controversy or antagonism, but merely to arrive at conclusion, based upon indubitable facts the writer is put to the necessity of showing that the "German New River Settlement," centering in and around the "Horse shoe bottoms" of New River and the mouths of [Tom's] and Stroubles Creeks and extending from this center has priority claims over "Drapers Meadows" by several years.

Ahnentafel #241 - Jane Bruce

Jane Catherine Bruce

Born: ca. 1758 Orange County, VA
Died: Sept. 13, 1838 in Gibson County, IN

Buried: Unknown

Married:  James Fitzgerald, Nov. 14, 1787 in Orange Co., VA.  She was probably his second wife.  She may have been married before as well.

Records:
1787 - November 14 - Orange Co., VA - Stephen Fitzgerrell md. Catherine Bruce. Surety William Fitzgerrell. Wit: Jacob Ahart.  Stephen, son of James Fitzgerrell. 

1790 - not found on census, probably living in Virginia

1800 not found on census

1801 - a James Fitzgerald appears on tax list in Franklin Co., KY