Benjamin Rankin Land deed
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.
Deed book 5 deeds of 1778- 1781 microfilm # 0829881 courthouse ledger page 744
8 Dec 1779 Rich WILLIS and Frances WILLIS 312 2/3 acres plus negroes for L 35.000 to
Benjamin RANKIN land purchased by trustees of George MERCER given by his brother Francis WILLIS of Benjamin RANKIN and adj to col John Washington , Charles Washington, Col. George Fairfax ,Cornelius Conway and widow Stephenson. Also 400 acres and the following negroes ( names 14 negroes as property of Frances Willis " but with his consent. and 24 Negroes the property of Rich Willis ) If you want the names of the negroes listed I will detail them for you later. I want to go back to Benjamin's will and see if any of them were those listed . Witnesses were Warner Washington Jr. , James Crane, John Crane, Dolphin Drew.
