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Facts and Events
Nicholas Long was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys:
- Northern Neck Survey: Nicholas Long, 4 Jan 1749/50 - 5 Feb 1749/50; 450 acres on Stony Run joyning the mountain. Chain carriers, Matthias Selser & Paul Long___? (faded). Surv. George Hume. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 27].
- Northern Neck Survey: Nicholas Long, son & assignee of Phillip Long, 22 Aug 1749 - 26 Sep 1749; 400 a. joyning the lower line of Phillip Longs patented land. Chain carriers, Jacob Rodecap & Rudy Mock. Surv. George Hume. From warrant, "I assign over the witnin warrant to my sone Nicholas Long..." German signature of Philip Long. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 27].
Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:
- G-404: Nicholas Long of Augusta County, 450 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. George Hume. On South River of Shannondoah, Line Run. 6 Aug. 1750. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 43].
Estate Records
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Vol. 2 - Nicholas Long's administrator vs. Huston--From Shenandoah--O. S. 18; N. S. 6. Nicholas Long died 1772, leaving widow Margaret, who married a man of color named Daniel Dick.
Records in Virginia
- Northern Neck Survey: Zachary Blankenbaker/Blankenbeeker, 4 Jan. 1749/50 - 2 Feb. 1749/50; 440 acres on Line run neigh Shannandoah River, South side thereof; adj. Phillip Long. CC - Nicholas Long & Lawrence Gar (Garr). Surv. George Hume. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 19].
- (Augusta County, VA, County, Court Orders, November 26, 1751, Page 17) (201) Paul and Nicholas Lung, Henry Dickens and David Loudeback, a ppraisers of John Windlekite; John Gum and Michael Waring, appraisers of Cornelius O'Bryan.
References
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Another son of the Philip Long, b. c. 1680, was Nicholas Long, b. c. 1715. O'Dell in "Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia" carries this family through a couple of additional generations.
http://mock.rootsweb.ancestry.com/mlarchives/arc9604h.txt
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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