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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.

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.


	Michael Helm October 11, 2004 09:22 PM PDT I think I may have this Willis deed. If you look at the deed list, you'll see I "x"d a deed like that, meaning I pulled it off the film. I obviously have not examined or abstracted it, & I think it looked like a mortgage to me, so I didn't do more than scan the first few lines.