Person:Morgan Morgan (12)

Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:

• H-546: Morgan Morgan of Frederick Co., 255 acres in said County. surv. Will'm Baylis. Adj. Col. George Fairfax, Capt. Richard Morgan, on Tuccororah Branch of Opeckon. 8 Nov. 1754. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 79].

Records in Frederick County, VA

• H-421: James Crumley of Frederick County, 742 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. William Baylis. Adj. Thomas Martin, John Bozioth, Mill Creek Branch of Opeckon, Col. Morgan Morgan, Nirholas Hanshaw. 1 Feb. 1754. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 74-75].

• H-458: Thomas Follis of Frederick County, 301 acres in said County. Surv. by William Baylis. Adj. Col. Morgan Morgan, George Hobson, near a Br. of Mill's land surveyed for Zachariah Cocks & resigned by him to Thomas Follis. Hobson' line. 3 July 1754. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 75].

• M-119: Edward Morgan of Frederick County, 313 acres on Tuscororah Branch of Opeckon in said County. Surv. Mr. William Baylis. Adj. Morgan Morgan. 19 Jan. 1763. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 148].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Vol. 2 - Savage vs. Eyre--O. S. 206; N. S. r3-Answer filed 1804, says about 40 years ago Robert Lyre married Ann Price, daughter of John Price, who lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and about eleven years thereafter removed to Virginia. On 12th September, 1770, John Price made his will. Elisha and Samuel Price were brother and uncle of Ann. Robert had (at least) two children, John and Hanna; also sons, Robert and Adam. Will of John Price of Lower Chichester, Chester County, Pennsylvania: Wife Elizabeth; daughter Ann, wife of Robert Eyre; son Samuel; daughter Hannah Price; daughter Sarah Price, infant; son John, infant; daughter Elizabeth; sister Sarah Price. Dated 12th December, 1770. Recorded in West Chester. Deed dated 7th April, 1796 between Robert Eyre of Norbon Parish, Berkeley County, yeoman, to Elisha Price of Chester Borough, Counly of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Samuel Price of Lower Chichester, Pennsylvania, and Ann Eyre, wife of Robert, and Robert Eyre, Jr. 250 acres in Berkeley. Deed dated 18th April, 1796, by Robert Eyre to William Boyd, 277 acres on Mill Creek in Berkeley, conveyed by grantee to grantor on same date. Proved in Berkeley 25th April, 1796. Deed dated 23d June, 1800, by Richard Ridgway, Robert Eyre and Ann and James Stephenson. Mortgage conveys part of 1,000 acres patented to Morgan Morgan 12th November, 1735, and conveyed by Morgan to Zackwell Morgan in 1761, and to Robert Rutherford in 1768, to James Seaton in 1769, to Robert Eyre in 1777. Recorded in Berkeley 24th June, 1800. Deed R8th September, 1801, by Robert Eyre, Sr., to Adam Eyre, part of 742 acres patented by Fairfax to James Crumbley, Ist February, 1754, conveyed by Henry and William Crumbley, sons of James, to Robert Rutherford, 25th October, 1766; by him to Richard Colvert, 8th February, 1768; by him to Wm. Boyd, deceased, Ist August, 1769, and which Wm. Boyd holds as heir to Wm. Boyd, deceased; by him to Robert Eyre, 18th April, 1796, on Mill Creek, in Berkeley County. Recorded in Berlteley 26th April, 1802. Deed 28th September, 1801, by Robert Eyre, Sr., to Robert Eyre, Jr., part of 1,000 acres above. Recorded in Berkeley 26th April, 1802. Thomas Reese deposes in Berkeley County, 1806, he lived in Berkeley upwards of 40 years. Deed 7th April, 1796, by Robert Eyre to Elisha Price and Samuel Price of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Ann Eyre. [Note: several dates corrected from transcription, believed to be correct].

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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