Notebook:Dryden Family in Southwest Virginia

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Summers

Title:Source:Summers, 1903 History of Southwest Virginia and Washington County
Given NamepageDateCountyExtract
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Summers 1929

Title:Source:Summers, 1929 Annals of Southwest Virginia
Given NamepageDateCountyExtract
135 Bot .
150 Bot .
David 658 1 Feb 1774 Fin 160 acres north side Holston
David 971 30 Sept 1777 Wash Appraise estate of james Young
David 1033 15 June 1779 Wash on Jury
David 1047 Wash 4 days attendance Acklin against Henry
David 1055 Wash Stood bond for Robert Preston, Surveyor, for 20,000 pounds, along with Aaron Lewis
David 1063 24 Oct 1780 Wash member of court
Nathaniel 1074 Wash Inventory and appraisment of Estate of Nathaniel Dryden presented
William 1092 21 Nov 1781 Wash On Jury
William 1095 20 Mar 1782 Wash Ordered that Suse a negro Wench supposed to be the property ofJoseph Barrett ofSC remain n the care of William Dryden for 12 months; Wm Dryden indebted to Commonwealth of VA in the sum of 200 pounds
William 1097 21? March 1782 Wash On Jury
James 1098 17 April 1782 Wash Proved will of person:William Campbell (85) Deceased
William 1102 22 May 1782 Wash Thomas Caldwell enters himself as security for William Drytden in the room of John Yancy for delivery of a Negro Wench Suss, taken by former order of Court
1104 Wash Served as with george Finley security for Elizabeth Hill who was appointed Guardian of Rebekah Hill, Mirriam Hill, James Hill, Sarah Hil, Eliz. Hill, and Thomas hill, orphans of Thomas Hill
William 1105 18 june 1782 Wash William Dryden presentment of Grand Jury, selling liquor above the rates defined by law, fined. Similar presentments against Lefevour LeFevor), John Yancy, Ann Meek, Isaac Roman, James McElwee, George Finley William Robinson, dismissed. Lefever kept a store in the Thompsons Creek area, George Finley and John Yancy had dealings with William Dryden, and it may be that they were all engaged in trade/merchants.
William 1137 21 March 1783 Wash among those ordered to be appointed officers in a troop of horses to be raised in this county
William 1139 Wash identified as a Garnishee, from whom the sheriff had confiscated 20 gallons of Whiskey; the whisky to be sold to recover remaining granishment and court costs.

Kegley 1

Title:Source:Kegley and Kegley, 1980 (vol 1 Southwest Virginia)
Given NamepageDateCountyExtract
David 33 160 acre loyal land company survey
David 85 Signatory Ebbing Springs Call

Kegley 2

Title:Source:Kegley, 1982 (vol 2 Fincastle, Montgomery, and Wythe Counties)
Given NamepageDateCountyExtract
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Kegly 3

Kegley 2

Title:Source:Kegley, 1995 (vol 3 New River Settlements)
Given NamepageDateCountyExtract
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Kegley 4

Title:Source:Kegley, 1998 (vol 4 Evansham (Wytheville)
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Robertson

Title: Robertson, 1998 Washington County Surveyor's Records
Extract
Page 36 - Joel Dryden...200 ac...commissioners certificate...on both sides of Holstein River...Beginning with James Doran & David Drydens land...corner to Thomas Berry, Sr...June 16, 1782 - Joel Dryden, heir of Nathaniel Dryden, decd, assignee of Benjamin Grag, assignee of William McNab, assignee of Thomas Stubbs ...200 ac on Holstein River adjoining Thomas Berry, includes the place whereon Dryden now lives, actual settlement made in 1771...August 24, 1781
Page 173 - David Dryden...330 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on Holstein River on the Fifteen Mile Creek...Beginning in a rocky gap...on Joel Drydens line...corner to Dryden & James Doren...corner on Oliver Alexanders land... on the west side of Fifteen Mile Creek...at the mouth of Fifteen Mile Creek...June 15, 1782 - David Dryden, assignee of John Row...400 ac...on both sides of Holstein River...160 ac surveyed for David Dryden on February 1, 1774, actual settlement made in 1771...August 30, 1781
Page 176 - Joel Dryden...125 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on both sides of Little Mockison Creek, waters of the north fork of Holston River...bounded on the north by Mockeson Ridge and on the south by Clinch Mountain...Beginning at the foot of the mountain, corner to Silas Enyarts land...on the south side of Mockeson Ridge...February 20, 1784 - Joel Dryden, heir of Nathaniel Dryden, decd...400 ac...on Little Mockeson Creek, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1776...August 24,
Page 176 - Silas Enyart...200 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on the north side of Clinch Mountain, on both sides of Little Mockison Creek, waters of the north fork of Holstein River...Beginning at the foot of the mountain...corner to Joel Drydens land...February 21, 1784 - Silas Enyart, assignee of John Berry, 200 ac...on Little Mockison Creek, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1771...August 30, 1781
Page 248 - Oliver Alexander...190 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on both sides of the Fifteen Miler Creek...Beginning on the south side of the knobs corner to Adam Hopes land...on the east side of the creek...corner to Alex Dorans land...corner to David Drydens land...corner to Samuel Montgomerys land...June 16, 1782 - Oliver Alexander...200 ac...on 15 mile creek adjoining David Dryden, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 177_...September 1, 1781
Page 284 - Thomas Berry, Sr. - 400 ac - Commissioners Certificate - on the north side of Holstein River and on both sides of Woolf Creek - corner to Alexander Montgomery - corner to DAVID Lowrey - crossing Woolf Creek near the bank a little below a small spring - corner to Lowrey & James Dorens - corner to Joel Dryden - August 25, 1785...Thomas Berry, assignee of John Ourus - 400 ac on Holstein River adjoining Alex Montgomery & Thomas McCaley - includes improvement, actual settlement made in 1770 - August 15, 1781
Page 294 - Alexander Doren - 170 ac - Commissioners Certificate - on the waters of the Wolf Creek and of fifteen mile Creek north branches of Holstein River - beginning corner to David Dryden, Oliver, Alexander & James Doren - by two roads - above Wolf Creek - at the foot of the knobbs - corner to Oliver Alexander - August 26, 1785...Alexander Doren, assignee of Joseph Alexander - 400 ac - actual settlement made in 1777 - on fifteen mile creek adjoining Adam Hope, James Philips, James Doren & Oliver Alexander, includes improvements - August 14, 1781
Page 294 - James Doren - 400 ac - Commissioners Certificate - on both sides of Woolf Creek, a north branch of Holstein River - beginning on a path at the foot of a knob corner to James Montgomery's land - on the bank of a branch corner to David Lowrey - crossing Wolf Creek - by a cabbon - corner to Thomas Berry - corner to Joel Dryden - corner to David Dryden - crossing the creek to the side of the first mentioned knobb - August 26, 1785...James Doren, assignee of Westley White, assignee of James Dorchester - 400 ac - by settlement made in 1769 - on Wolf Creek adjoining William Lowrey, Thomas Berry, David Dryden, Alexander Doren - 268 ac surveyed for James Doren on January 29, 1774
Page 298 - Joel Dryden, assignee of Samuel McGee - 74 ac - Treasury Warrant adjoining Joel Drydens settlement survey - beginning on the north side of Holston river - corner to Thomas Berry Sr. - corner to David Dryden's land - warrant dated April 4, 1782 #8427 - October 19, 1785
Page 313 - Richard Ranshaw - 5000 ac - treasury warrant #15859 dated May 8, 1783 and #21754 dated December 24, 1783 - on the waters of Little Mockison Creek a north branch of the north fork of Holstein River and on the waters of Copper Creek a south branch of Clinch River - corner to Stephen Walling - corner to Wallings settlement right - along Ingram's line - corner to Joseph Wainscot - corner to Aaron Roberts land on Wainscots line - on Drydens line - corner to Engarts land - corner to Abraham Woods - April 15, 1786
Page 317 - James Donn - 80 ac - treasury warrant #19216 (19218) dated September 8, 1783 - on both sides of Woolf Creek, a branch of Holstein River - corner to David Dryden's land - corner to Alexander Doren - between two roads - on a high bank above Woolf Creek - corner to James Montgomery - corner to James Doren's settlement tract - August 26, 1785
Page 322 - Philip Philips - 3000 ac - treasury warrants #18724 dated August 13, 1783 and #18731 dated August 14, 1783 and #18727 dated August 14, 1783 - on the south side of Holston River - near to David Drydens lower corner - crossing a creek corner to Smiths land - corner to Jenkins land - crossing Cove Spring Branch - on the north side of Cove Creek corner to Montgomerys land - September 1, 1786
Page 427 - John Fleming - 1974 ac - part of 2 treasury warrants, 1184 ac by warrant #1184 dated February 14, 1795 and 790 ac by warrant #990 dated December 18, 1794 - on the south side of Holstein River - corner to John Jones land - near Mathew Smith's survey - on the river corner to David Dryden's land - at the mouth of fifteen mile creek - April 22, 1795

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