Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Volume VIII

Description

This continuation of Nell Marion Nugent’s work covers Grant Books A-F, 1779-1782. xxxii + 412 pp, cloth (2005).

Read more about this valuable series in an article, “Cavaliers and Pioneers: Not Just a Record of Land Patents,” written by Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS, for The VGS Newsletter https://www.vgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CandP_Article.pdf. Each volume contains an Introduction that includes information about Virginia’s history, migrations, and settlements as well as the process for obtaining land both before and after the Revolutionary War. The introductions are written by prominent Virginia historians and researchers such as Daphne Gentry, Robert Young Clay, and John M. Hemphill II.

Note: Volumes 1 through 3, covering the years 1623–1732 and a supplement covering Northern Neck Grants from 1690–1692, abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent and published by the Library of Virginia, are available for sale from The Virginia Shop at the Library of Virginia (https://www.thevirginiashop.org/).