Greenbrier Land Patents

in the Williamsburg/Cornstalk area

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Click on a link below to access an image of the original land patent and a detailed plat of its respective survey.

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Jordan Land Holdings

• James Jordon – 345 acres on Sinking Creek
• James Jordan – 25 acres on Sinking Creek
• James Jordon Senr. – 220 acres on Hugart’s Creek
• James Jordon and William H. Cavendish – 2085 acres on Little Clear Creek
• William Jordan – 220 acres on Buffalo Lick Mountain

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Area landowners not included on the plot map above:

• William Blake – 250 acres
• John Blake and David McCoy – 385 acres
• William Donaldson – 200 acres
• Andrew Donnally Jr. – 138 acres
• Benjamin Erwin – 346 acres
• John Finton – 93 acres
• Andrew Lewis – 350 acres
• William McCoy and David Hanna – 33 acres
• George Mollihan – 352 acres
• John Ryburn – 300 acres
• Cornelius Vanosdal – 76 acres, 100 acres
• William Ward – 210 acres

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These land patents were first-title deeds from the Commonwealth of Virginia establishing the beginning of private ownership of the land. Each patent listed the name(s) of the patentee and any assignees, and contained a description of the survey (in metes and bounds); it also gave the dates of any warrants and noted when the patent was granted. All patents were signed by the Governor of Virginia.

I plotted each patent individually from images of the original Northern Neck Land Patents, then patched them together based on landmarks and common survey boundaries. I believe this overlay to be as accurate as possible, given that the surveys have several errors and areas of overlap, probably because they were made by different surveyors over many years.

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