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Montgomery County, Virginia Plott Book A and B 1773 - 1783 - Printed Version

Montgomery County, Virginia - Plott Book C 1783-1788 - Printed Version

 

 

 

Description

Montgomery County, Virginia Plott Book A and B 1773 - 1783:

When Augusta County, Virginia was divided into Fincastle and Botetourt Counties in 1772 many of the land grants and surveys were in what is now Montgomery County. Since Fincastle only lasted four years, their land records are in these survey books. Plott Book A 1773-1782 are primarily the Fincastle surveys and some later ones are when Montgomery and Washington Counties were working together on their records. Plott Book B 1782-1783 are strictly the land grants given out by Lord Dunmore for service in the Indian War with the Shawnee. Fincastle covered most of southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and a small portion of upper east Tennessee north of the Holston River. The surveys are the first surveys of most of these land areas.

 

Montgomery County, Virginia - Plott Book C 1783-1788:

The subtitle of this book says more than the title - “Warrants to Officers & Soldiers from the Earl of Dunmore.” Plott Books A-B are totally different than this volume which gives just the warrants given to those Officers and Soldiers who fought in Dunmore’s war. This was a conflict of the white settlers in Virginia who were being attacked and massacred by the Shawnee who came down the rivers and valleys of southwestern Virginia to attack the whites. Most of the time the Shawnee would kill the settlers stealing their livestock and in many cases, they took prisoners back to Ohio where they were traded or sold to the British and French in Canada. Many of the names in this volume are those we run across in most of the local histories of the area of southwestern Virginia. All of the land on which the warrants were settled were in Fincastle County which covered the territory from the Shenandoah Valley to the Mississippi River including what is now West Virginia, Kentucky, part of upper east Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. Plott Book A contains the surveys of these warrants and others given out.

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