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From: "Patti" <>
Subject: Re: [VAMONTGO] 1773-1777 Tax lists
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:26:07 -0400


Diana,
Where did you locate your map? I also have family that was located in
Montgomery Co., VA. By chance was there any MacMahan or any varations of the
name, McNulty, Jones and Henry's. It's so difficult to locate early records
and you give hope!
Thanks
Pat
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From: Diana Kinzer Heath <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2000 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [VAMONTGO] 1773-1777 Tax lists


>Hi Paul,
>I don't have a complete list but I do have some info...I would LOVE to have
>a complete list; so, if you get one, please, let me know!
>
>I am a direct descendant of so many of these people, but not really direct
>from the names you listed. I have studied this migration and always
seeking
>to learn more about it. Could we have some interaction about this?
Please,
>include me in your research.
>
>I have a copy of an old Montgomery Co., map; in which, shows most of the
>very earliest homesteads. I show Robert Gresham as living across "Mountain
>Road" beyond Tom's Creek. It says that he settled in 1775.
>
>Michael Price is located, not, on Tom's Creek but Price's Mountain, at
>(Thomas Stroubles Creek...Coal from the mine on Price Mountain was used by
>the Merrimac Ironclad. Michael Price, II settled nearer to Tom's Crk.,
near
>the area of Price's Fork, in 1786.
>
>Peter Harless settled in an area south of Lick Creek off of Tom's Crk., in
>1765...near, or at "Sunnyside".
>Adam Harman, 500 acres in 1752--around an area, or place, "Whitethorne",
had
>the neighbors of John Harrison, Abraham Brown, Israel Lorton--he settled in
>1745, near "Fishing Run" branch off of Tom's Crk. Northwest of them were
>Richard McCoy, 400 acres in 1783; Jacob Shell in 1794, at "Long Shop"( his
>property aligned with Philip Harless'; and, was near the New River.
>
>John Philip Keister, 1799-just s.w. of Michael Price's...also aligned
>withPhilip Harless', Jacob Shell, and Israel Lorton.
>
>I will give you the homesteaders around Tom's Creek--(where I was exploring
>last year!) Many of these are my ancestors.
>Peter Olinger, *James Bane 1763; *Michael Kinzer, 1802 ( I don't think this
>is the correct date that he settled in the co., as one of my Kinzer's lived
>at "The Glades" area ca. 1742. And was one of the settlers living in the
>same settlement of the Draper's and Col. James Patton, who was killed by
the
>Shawnee, 30 July, 1755, 21 days after Braddock's defeat.); *Joseph McDonald
>mill, 1763; *Michael Surface, 1794 at "Smithfield" area; Christopher
Ribble,
>1774; John Stockdell on Brush Mtn.
>
> This is just a sample of what I have, hope it helps.....
>Diana

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