I picked this up from June on the FAUQUIER Co mailing list

http://departments.umw.edu/hipr/www/Fredericksburg/buildads.htm

The Virginia Herald and Fredericksburg Advertiser

July 24, 1788 4:2
For immediate sale, A very valuable tract of land, situate on Evett's Run, a branch of the
Shenandoah River, within one mile of Charles-town, Berkeley County, containing 250 acres.
There are nearly 100 acres cleared and under good fence, 15 acres of which is in good
meadow of an excellent quality, the whole of which can be well watered, without any trouble,
having the advantage of a constant mill stream running through it. -it is unnecessary
to mention any thing respecting the quality of this land, it being well known that
the lands in this neighborhood are equal to any in the state for planting and farming. A
considerable part of the purchase money will be required down, either in cash, or any kind of
public securities, at their current value. The purchaser will be allowed a reasonable time
for a remainder of the purchase money, on giving bonds on interest, with approved
security, For terms of sale, or further particulars, apply to the subscriber, who can give any
person inclined to purchase, every necessary information respecting the premises.
Benjamin Beeler.
Mills-Grove, Berkeley county, July 7.

Julie transcribed the will as promised and sent it to us but had trouble posting it so I am going to try to  post it for her. Here is a copy of what she sent to us via email today

Finally sent for Berkely County (West)  VA Deeds and Will Abstracts Deed books 1-5 ( 1772- 1781) Will Books 1-3 ( 1772- 1805) which was abstracted from microfilm. Recieved it yesterday and am still going through it.
It hasn't got a lot of the stuff Mike found  but  I did find one  deed that I think Mike missed or at least I didn't see it posted in the xls listing of deeds. Here it is.

We had the unexpected pleasure of visiting Mount Hammond Friday (Oct 1). The house is very old -- whether it was built by James Hammond, or Benjamin Rankin is unclear, and the current owners have heard several stories. Hammond's initials are carved in a stone over one of the doors. But it could even be older than Rankin.

It's quite likely a cemetery was on the property and Hammond and Rankin were probably buried there. A fragment of a stone to a grave of a granddaughter of Thomas R Rankin was found (Margaret? Little ca 1850) when the owners' parents began renovations more than 50 years ago. No other stones were found and the property had been occupied by tenants for quite some time before that, owned by a Dr Pittman. The graveyard was probably lost or removed after the Hammond family sold out, or else the stones are buried underground somewhere.

The house sits on a large property on the Shenandoah. They are not completely sure of the site of the Rankin-Hammond ferry, but think it is a little further south than Mt Hammond, near some rapids; some Civil War re-enactors told them that (or put their own ferry there).

The property was originally 300 acres, much like the Hammond plantation. It has been in possession of the family of the current owners since 1947, and the property has recently been split in half between members of that family.

Judy & Tom, our afternoon hosts, have a wealth of information about the house, the Hammond and Rankin family and descendents, & have contacts with one of the active family societies of the area, the Roper family (James Roper owned much of the Hammond and maybe some Beeler legacies after 1850). It was too much for me to absorb in one sitting but Judy has promised to share this with us as time permits. In particular her husband's parents did extensive land research and have a lot of the deed references we need to start drawing.

Pictures and more description after the plane ride!

Julie writes:
> Unless Benjamin Rankin purchased more than one parcel from John
> Stephenson, isn't this the Deed that I obtained from Don Wood
> in Berkeley Co. and transcribed already. I've attached the
> transcription.

Thanks; we should put that in
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~onthebullskin/Deeds/

Don't yet have anything there.

Some Rankin entries:

1 1772/3 Davis Wm Rankin Benjm L&R 474 15 mar 1773 829879-1-474

>From the Grantee book

p218
Mar 16/18 1773 Rankin Benj 2 Davis Wm L&R 1 474 real
Aug 16 1780 Rankin Benj 2 Willis Rich Mort 5 744 real 1x
May 17 1785 Rankin Benj Stephenson Jno BoS 6 415 real 3x+
May 17 1785 Rankin Benj Stephenson Ann BoS 6 416 Real
May 17 1791 Rankin re Judith Washington Tr Lehas? Deed 9 465
real x


(the "x" is the mark I made when I copied the document;
a number here would be its filing; the 1773 Davis entry
is above, from the grantor book.)

The 1780 transaction -- looks like some kind of mortgage.
I don't have it handy and won't be able to look for it
for a few weeks. We can't tell whether it's a contract
/ mortgage for sale or some mortgage on some existing land
Rankin owned; from the Frederick Co entries you can see
he had several transactions before Berkeley Co split off.

The Stephenson deed above is one of 2 from Ann & John
on the same day. (Richard S. ... I wonder if he's the
brother of Hugh who contested the will, claiming all of
Hugh & Ann's children were illegitimate.)

Notice from the Stephenson -> Rankin deed, 200 acres
were specified. I think this is the 2 x 100 acre tracts
that Jane Baxter Hammond & Fanny Rankin Hammond owned
after their mother's death about 1816. These will eventually
wind up in the William Hooff land of ca 1850, perhaps
along with a bordering 100 acre tract Rankin bought of
Wm Davis (perhaps the 1773 purchase). This is all inland,
on the Bullskin or north from it towards Evitts run.

Check the different sheets in
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~onthebullskin/Research%20files/Jeffer
son%20Deeds%201801-1831.xls
for deed index information (where the above comes from.

For the Rankins:
(1) where did the 300 acres come from, that went to Margaret
& Wm Helm?
(2) where did the 245 acres come from, that went first to
Thomas R Rankin & then to his sister Jane (Philip) Hooff?
(3) where did all the land at Mount Hammond (Shenandoah)
come from -- which is Rankins' and when, & which is Hammonds?

For the Beelers:
(1) Where did all of Benjamin Beeler Sr/Jr's 433/600/520
acres go? Can't account for transactions that changed
this allotment - the estate size ~ 1835 at partition doesn't
match
(2) The shannondale springs grant of 1790's borders Rankins'
(more important than I thought)
(3) Where did all the land of Christopher Beeler go?
and of course the grand prize
(4) and (2) above - is the Frederick Beeler's widow's
dower share?

(was Re: from Joanne)
HIRENE writes:

> she sent and go through it to see what she actually sent. As for the
> Woodford copy deed, I thought we already had that. Maybe not. Why Woodford
> Co. Ky, I don't know. My history is not very good for right now. I know
that
> KY was a district of VA for some time. Don't remember when the partition
was

1792

> and or/when it was granted statehood on it's own. Also possible reason it
is
> recorded there is that the parties to it lived in KY. In a way that makes
> little sense but in another way maybe it does given the times. I think if
> you showed up in VA with a recorded deed, even if recorded elsewhere it
> would be considered legal and you could probably use it to sell the
property
> or take possession of it in VA. Of course that's just a guess but as

The whole story has a hollow ring to it, as if something was really
wrong. I should mention that there _is_ an incomprehensible notice
in Jefferson court documents in 1807 about a Helm -> unclear
land transfer. I couldn't track it down (I looked thru the 1807 deed
book entry by entry), and I just wrote it off; the minute book was a
WPA-era handwritten transcription, many entries were illegible, there
were gaps &c. I'll put this on the site. But the "unclear" name looked
like "Ronimus" or something like that, which looks like a local Jefferson
Co name. No deed was recorded in that year in Jefferson under that
name or Helm. Maybe it was really some legal term mis-transcribed,
I don't know.

Then we have to ask why was the Helm->Ranson transfer of 1810 recorded
twice, with slightly different participants (Benjamin Helm is missing in 1812
version). Somebody really wanted to make sure the Kentucky Helm and Mott
owners recorded their grant of this land. We must be missing a court case
some place.

> to transfer property. Where's Benjamin? Another I don't know. Maybe he and
> his sister and brother divided the property up among themselves or at
least

I have a feeling they didn't, and perhaps this is an early sign of the
division
we see later, where there Benjamin, his 2 full siblings, and their half
siblings all seem to be estranged from each other and unaware of each
other's current location or state of being.

I wonder if the concept of partition was fully developed then.

> a portion of it since I know they sold some of it together. Another
mystery
> that needs to be solved. Why they would sell property to Thomas Erskine?.
> Again a guess. Could it be that it adjoined land that our Wm sold Thomas E
> before he left for KY? I wonder about that because that land was in

He didn't sell any land to Thomas E Helm in Berkeley Co that I know of;
all the Helm deeds indexed are in the spreadsheet. As far as I know William
Helm
didn't have anything else to sell, not in the area between Evitts run &
Bullskin run anyway. If there's something recorded elsewhere, like
Frederick Co VA superior court, or in a post-dated Berkeley deed that's a
possibility.
Thomas E Helm was pretty young when William & family left for KY
so it seems unlikely he would have owned anything. Nothing appears
for him in Jefferson Co other than this same complicated transaction.


> Joanne and not vice versa. The woodford deed was quoted from Conkright if
I

I struggled thru this book looking for this again; I think I first saw it
just a few months ago when we were looking at early Helm history
at Ramona's request.

p 172 &seq has interesting info in it about Meredith & John Helm,
2 of the older brothers, in the Shelby Co KY area, which bears further
study sometime. It seems to show that elder brother John was
dead about 1780 & Meredtih & William picked up some land associated
with him, as his heirs. We do think he is alive at and just after his
father's death as a John Helm is one of the purchasers of items at
the estate sales. And we've also had some other infromation about
Helm-Harbourt connections that seem tied to him. Well, another day.

p 184 begins the William Helm section.

Here I notice for the 1st time that Conkwright covers the Bath, VA
lot, and mentions that "William Helm sold this lot to James M Wheat,
witnesses to the deed being William Helm Jr, John Hoff and William
Calmes; no wife signed the deed. (Deed Book CC, page 127; acknowledged
in Frederick Court by William Helm August 8, 1810, recorded in Berkeley
Superior Court, Tenth Judicial Circuit, September 23,1811). The
witness William Helm, Jr may have been his first cousin, son of William
Helm[3]."

I will try to get this deed.

I am very doubtful that this lot could have been owned by our William Helm.
He wasn't around to do anything in Aug of 1810, his 3 children have already
declared him dead in Jan 1810 and are selling the land he held in Jefferson
Co during the term of his life! Unless it's post-dated...
it seems more likely it's his uncle William of Frederick Co who held
this all along. Does Virginia Bruch discuss this?

Later in the same page (187) Conkwright says " he was dead before 1810".

Conkwright mentions a suite of William Helm against Franics Hamilton
(Order book 1, p 109) in Berkeley Co in 1772-3. This too seems unlikely
as our William Helm was born in 1760 according to the Joseph Helm Bible
(or perhaps a few years earlier, at most, if you don't believe it :^).

Ok, the matter in question:
p 190-191
"After the death of Margaret Rankin Helm, the land bequeathed her by her
father
was leased to George A Kittenburger [sic] by her husband, William Helm,
the lease to run during his life. (Deeds of her son, Thomas, and her daughter
Elizabeth Mott, November 23, 1807, Woodford County Ky Deed Book D,
page 338) The second wife of William Helm was Aggie...."

Mentioned again on p 192 bracketing William Helm's date of death as
between 27 Mar 1806 & 23 Nov 1807, "when his children, Thomas Helm
and Elizabeth Mott, deeded land which had belonged to his first
wife and had been leased after her death for the period of his life. ([same
Woodford citation])"

> remember correctly and using it, if I remember correctly we were able to
> locate that actual deed.

Think we will have to get this deed from the Woodford county records....

I looked ahead to the entry about Thomas Erskine Helm (begins p 195?).
The 1807 deed is discussed p 197-8 and mentions he bought this
Jefferson Co land from his nephew & niece. I don't think I've read this
passage in Conkwright before. It suggests that Thomas Helm (William's
son) is already living in Hopkins, KY, too. This page goes on to describe
both the 1810 & 1812 deeds of this same Jefferson Co land. Later,
I'll scan & post these references to the site (after I get back, that is).

George Carr (a Keyes descendent) send us some information on
the Keyes family and the Keyes ferry on the Shenandoah.
Keyes & Vestals were neighbors of our Berkeley/Jefferson Co families,
ran a famous ferry, and have some involvement with our families
(intermarriage, business, legal).

Mike

You sure have made my interest come alive - I have spent over an hour
looking into various sites to see what I could find on the ferry. Here are
some bits of interest. I have copies of a couple of these - they were on
sites of family connections. I also have Asa Keyes book.

One other if you can find a copy or get access to the site is George
Washington's papers.

One map site I found was wayhoo.com - again I found it through google
search - it was several hits in where I found it - there were about 100 hits.

George

KEYES, JOHN WADE. - "The last resting place of this Revolutionary soldier
is in an old family burial ground upon his plantation, three miles from
Athens on the Huntsville road. His lovely rural home was situated upon a
hill about half a mile from Swan creek. His wife, Louisa Talbot Keyes, lies
beside him. John Wade Keyes was born in Mystic, near Boston, Mass., Sept.
25, 1752, and died near Athens, Ala., Feb. 13, 1839. His ancestry and many
acts of his life are told in a book of the Keyes family called Solomon
Keyes and His Descendants, by Judge Asa Keyes, of Vermont, published in
Battleboro. We find from this that he was the son of Capt. Humphrey Keyes
and Marcella Wade. His father was a sea captain of Boston. After many
successful voyages he was wrecked and taken captive by the Algerines. He
was a prisoner for years, but finally made his escape. Upon his return to
Boston he took John, his oldest son, and went down into Virginia. An old
family record in Tennessee shows that Capt. Humphrey Keyes in 1775 was
proprietor of `Keyes' Ferry' on the Shenandoah river. A member of the
family has now in his possession a letter written by General Washington
relative to the survey of Keyes' Ferry tract on the Shenandoah near
Charleston, Jefferson county, Virginia. John Wade Keyes married January 27,
1773, in Virginia, Louisa Talbot, niece of President Monroe. She was born
near Alexandria, Va., April 20, 1756, and died near Athens, Nov. 6, 1836.
This happy couple lived together for sixty-three years. Early in the
Revolutionary war there was a call made for volunteers under Gen. John
Thomas in the Shenandoah Valley. John Wade Keyes was the second man to
enlist; he was engaged in the battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Trenton,
White Plains, Princeton, Brandywine and King's Mountain. Capt. John Keyes
settled near Alexandria, Virginia, moved thence to the vicinity of
Blountsville, Sullivan county, East Tennessee, and finally to Athens,
Limestone county, Alabama, where he was one of the pioneer settlers. It is
said that he would never consent to apply for a pension and when asked for
his reasons he would reply, `I fought for patriotism, not pensions.' He
greatly honored and loved George Washington and he showed his admiration by
naming his twin sons for him; one was called George and the other
Washington. George Keyes commanded a company under Gen. Jackson and was
afterwards made a brigadier-general of militia. Among the descendants of
John Wade Keyes were Chancellor Wade Keyes, one of the most prominent
jurists that Alabama has produced; George P. Keyes, a noted journalist;
Col. John B. Richardson, of New Orleans, commander of the famous
`Washington Artillery' during the war, and others of distinction at the
present day."-Mrs. P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical
Society, Vol, iv, p. 548.


Notes for Gershom Keyes:
From Genealogy of Robert Keyes and Solomon Keyes and Their Descendants
(Asa Keyes 1880):
"Gersham Keyes eldest son of Maj. John, and the only one of his sons who
survived the fire, married 1718, Sarah ------ and was living in Shrewsbury,
on house lot No. 15, in 1729. His wife joined the church there 1727. After
the birth of his children, says the record, 'Gersham removed to Boston and
became a wealthy merchant.' Gersham afterward removed to Virginia and
established a ferry, still called Keyes Ferry, on the Shenandoah River,
near Charlestown, Jeff. Co. The ferry was then half a mile below its
present site, opposite Sheler's Spring, now Keyes Switch. There are no data
to fix the time of Gersham's removal to Virginia, but in 1755, when
Braddock with his force crossed the Shenandoah, he was living there, and
from him supplies were bought for Braddock's army. The descendants still
preserve a letter, relative to the survey of the 'Keyes Ferry tract,' which
we here insert, as showing the extent of that tract, and as every item
relating to the father of his country must be interesting.
M Vernon 26th March 1762
Mr Keyes.
Your letter of the 18th Feb'y was delivered to me at our last court, by Mr.
Ramsay. In regard to the Warrant which you enquire after, I can only repeat
what I have often done before that it must have been returned with the
others to the Proprietor's office, if I ever had such a one, but since it
is not to be found there, I shall at your request declare all I remember
concerning it, which is this, that there was a Warrant directed to me for
surveying you (I think) four hundred acres of Land, either at or about your
Ferry, which then stood lower down the river; but who it was to join on, or
what was the reason of not executing it I cannot absolutely recollect; this
I perfectly well know, that I did make you a survey at some place near to
where your Ferry then stood, but I think it was in consequence of another
Warrant, and that I have had such a Warr't as you ask after in my
Possession and moreover that it was not executed owing to some dispute
between Col. Fairfax and yourself.
I am Sir
Yr. Hble Servt.
Go Washington
Superscription.
To
Mr. Gersham Keyes,
In
Frederick
Recommended to
the care of
Mr. Ramsay


Notes for Humphrey Keyes:
- From Genealogy of Robert Keyes and Solomon Keyes and Their Descendants"
(Asa Keyes, 1880):
"Humphrey Keyes was a Sea Captain, married in New England, probably in
Boston, Marcella Wade, had two sons, was wrecked off the coast of Turkey,
and taken captive by the Algerines. He escaped and returned home after some
years, to find that his wife supposing him dead had married another, with
whom she passed the remainder of her life. After her death, Capt. Humphrey
married in Virginia, Sarah Hall, born 1745, consequently ten years old at
the time we first hear of Gersham at his ferry on the Shenandoah. Her three
brothers were the founders of Halltown, in Jefferson Co., and in 'notes on
Jefferson Co., Virginia' printed in Va., 1857, we find that 'Sarah lived
with her parents in a little dale near a fine orchard, at the foot of the
hill where Rion Hall now stands.' The same record states that Capt.
Humphrey Keyes was proprietor of Keyes Ferry in 1775. Capt. Humphrey died
April 19, 1793, so says an old family record, now in possession of Jno. T.
Keyes, Bristol, Tenn., which record gives also the birth of John, son of
Humphrey."
- Mystik was a section of the town of Winchester. Mystic Plantation is now
called Medford. The Keyes listed there were: Francis Keyes b. 4 June 1749,
son of Humphry; and John Keyes b. 6 October 1751, son of Humphry. - 1764
Rent Roll, Frederick Co., VA - Humphrey Keyes
Gersham lived first in Shrewsbury, MA. m. (1) Sarah Eager. They moved to
Boston where Gersham is said to have become a wealthy merchant.

After Sarah's death, Gersham m. (2) Ruth _________, and moved to Frederick
Co., VA, where Gersham established a ferry that crossed the Shenandoah
River, a service used by both the Blues and the Grays during the war. The
vast Keyes holdings included a store which is recorded as a source of
supplies to Braddock's army in 1755. That part of Virginia was later to
become West Virginia.

Gersham bought all available land surrounding his property, and, at one
time, George Washington wrote to Gersham that he had surveyed the land held
in question by George's cousin, Lawrence Washington. In old wills recorded
in England we find Lawrence Washington's in which he requested his heirs to
continue to sue Gersham Keyes over that dispute.

"Item - I also desire my just suit of complaint at law depending aganist
Gersham Keyes
of Fredrick County for breach of trust be effectually prosecuted by my
Executors. -----"

Fredrick County, VA., was divided into three separate counties in 1772,
after settlers complained of the different kinds of problems posed in the
various parts of the large county. Thus, came Jefferson Co., and it was
this area which had been chosen by Gersham Keyes in 1746 as his home and
basis for his vast holdings.

Overseers were appointed by the county court to establish roads, the first
consideration for such being the three established ferries. Watkins Ferry
was near Williamsport; Stroud's Ferry near Berkeley County, and the Keyes
Ferry near Charlestown were the locations first reviewed for roads. On 17
November, 1772, the report was made, and an order issued for the first road
to be established to Keyes Ferry, a mile above the town of Millville, on
the Shenandoah River.

Gershem's old stone house overlooked the ferry on the west side of the
river and was "once besieged by a party of Indians with loss of life on
both sides...." (this quote taken from "Background and Formation of
Berkeley".)

"In 1796 Louis Philippe, afterwards King of France, with his brother, the
Duke of Chartres, both exiled from their native land by the revolution,
made a tour of this part of the country, beginning at Mt. Vernon where they
were guests and roughing it in what was then called "The West". Coming from
Mt. Vernon, they crossed at Keyes Ferry...."

The 1879 flood from the Shepherdstown Register--- "Great Loss of Life,
Numbers Homeless and Destitute, October 8, 1879, Millions of Property
Destroyed.

"...Although extending over the largest portion of the State of Virginia,
the principle destruction of these waters seems to have been on the line of
the Shenandoah River and most heavily felt in our own county....

"The destruction of Keyes Ferry was complete. The old mansion house was in
the occupancy of Mr. Daniel Allstadt, who had scarcely succeeded in
removing his family before the house, stabling, farming implements, etc.,
became common food for the raging waters. In this connection we regret to
learn that Mr. Allstadt, lost $4,000.000 in bonds, which he had spread out
on a table in the house to dry, having been wet the previous day. This
house was long and familiarly known as the home of Gersham Keyes, and had
withstood the storm and tempest for over a century. It was the birthplace
of our venerable fellow citizen, Humphrey Keyes, Esq. and had furnished
shelter and food to many a wayfarer in past generations, particularly among
the itinerancy of the Methodist Church, to whom it was always a home of
welcome..."

The following account of the Keyes Ferry destruction was provided to the
Jefferson Co., Historical Society by Don C. Wood who added:

"The 1852 Brown Map shows a house slightly downstream from the Keyes Ferry
and quite near the river. This is absent from the 1883 map. This would have
been on land owned by Gersham Keyes at the time he established his ferry in
1748." He was married to Sarah EAGER in 1718 in Shrewsbury, Mass..

I have access to the Frederick Co deed index. This is quite an interesting index, I hope I can keep it around for a while as there may be many interesting things in it.

I had only a few minutes to look at it, and put a few entries here. I did in fact find the Helm listings also, but there are pages and pages; I'll have to scan that part. It's not an easy index to use, the quick index was filmed badly and you have to pick thru it to find the names.

The Ben Rankin entries:

1766	7 Sep 1766	Rankin	Benjamin	from	George Johnston ux	deed	11	162
1771	08 May 1771	"	"	"	William Davis ux	deed	14	57
1792	02 Oct 1792	Rankins	Benjamin	"	Denny Fairfax	lease	23	303
1792	02 Oct 1792	Rankins	William	"	Denny Fairfax	lease	24a	152

The 2 entries after 1787 are interesting; perhaps they are related to the ferry, as the Fairfaxes held some of the land around the Shenandoah, but how is Benjamin Rankin involved after his death? Or is this going to hint at another Rankin family connection, like the case of David Fulton?

There are other Rankin transactions, with Hugh &al, but will have to wait for later.

George Johnston
This is a well-known name & landholder in this territory, in the years before the revolution. However, if we look at O'Dell's map 3 and tract 14, we see Johnston was the owner of land along the Shenandoah as of 1760, right in the place where I claim Mount Hammond lay. Not conclusive until we see the deeds tho. But it could mean that "Mt Hammond" was the first land Rankin acquired. Almost certainly his son-in-law James Hammond added acreage to it.

This might smooth over the obvious problem we have with Judy Beeler -> Judith Rankin; if true, she lost her "own" land, some of it might possibly have gone to her step-daughter. But if she retained possession of the family plantation this exchange might have been acceptable to her. Julie thinks, however, that the tract Thomas R Hammond inherited, and that James L Hooff (his nephew) lived on in 1852, is the Beeler dower share. The size is a pretty good fit for Judy Beeler's share. The Frederick and 1790's Berkeley deeds will have to answer this.

Julie provided a list of early neighbors, showing land patents and sales, related to our search.

Most of these are early patents and sales, and it's a useful summary of what is known. The last current item (row 40) is the Shannondale Springs area; there is also a patent for this, I believe, in the LVA and there is a survey with it too. We'll have to go fetch this.

Julie has provided a version of the 1852 plat map from the Jefferson Co Explorer CD.

There were some difficulties creating a decent image (it had to be constructed piece by piece) and we are trying to locate a better image.

At the moment, Mike's copy of the CD is on back-order (they are hard to get), but Julie has located someone with a paper reproduction.

This map is the obvious place to begin platting. It shows property & owners and at least looks like a faithful approximation of what a surveyed plat would show, unlike the interesting but sketchy 1809 Varles map. We should be able to roll the land transactions backwards to the 18th century properties, as well as plot the families' properties against modern maps.

I was worried I was going to have to struggle thru another 35 years of deeds and tax entries to get to the 1883 plat map.

Julie reports that Tom Greg Carroll at the Archives Library, Cultural Center, 1900 Kanahawa, Charleston, WV 25305 and he said the 1854 (?2) S.Howell Brown Jefferson Co. map can be purchased for $10.00. The request should be sent in writing.