Papers: Lunenburg and Charlotte counties, Virginia, 1756-1843.

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Papers: Lunenburg and Charlotte counties, Virginia, 1756-1843.

This collection contains documents pertaining to land acquisitions by Paul Carrington and his son Clement Carrington in Lunenburg and Charlotte counties, Virginia: deeds from John and Ryland Randolph, William Townes, Clement Read, Samuel Firth, William Firth, Anthony and Mary Hundley, James and Elizabeth Collier, William P. Hunt estate (Moses and Susanah Hoge, Joel Watkins, Henry A. Watkins, William M. Watkins, executors), Elizabeth Watkins, Pleasant and Prudence Cayce, Robert and Virginia Atkinson, Robert and Joanna T. Carrington; land deeds from Walter and Lettice P. Coles, Elisha E. and Ann Hundley to Robert Carrington; Charlotte County and land deeds from John Logan to Thomas Bedford, Beverly Randolph to James Venable, John Winn estate (Thomas and Joseph Winn, executors) to Anthony Hundley, William Britton to David Sims, Drury Stith to Anthony Hundley; Person County, North Carolina land deed from Joseph Jones to Alexander Smith and Samuel S. Downey; surveys and plats for some of the above land; plat for land purchase by William W. Boldin from John Daniel; will, Thomas Bedford's land and slave to Stephen Bedford, 1785; military land warrants, 1796, for Richard Anderson, Clement Carrington, and Clement Read on Little Miami River [Ohio]; Kentucky land grant to Clement Carrington, 1799; ALS James Taylor, Newport, Kentucky to Clement Carrington, 1822, concerning 1799 Kentucky land grant; deed of gift of 40 slaves by Clement Carrington to his daughter, Nancy Cabell McPhail, and son-in-law John Blair McPhai.

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Library of Virginia

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