Orange,
Frederick & Berkley Counties: Sherrando & Hopewell
Characteristics: 1730's, Quakers, Scots,
Scotch-Irish,, Philadelphia Perimeter
Some Stayed; Some Rode On, --- Principally to Augusta County, SW Virginia,
& Carolina
The Hopewell deeds are recorded in Book 16; and can be seen and copied from the Library of Virginia. (When will the rest of the world catch up with VIRGINIA!!!??) The original tract was 40,000 acres. The Sherrando Deeds are in Book 15. Benjamin Borden, a wealthy Quaker, purchased in both of these tracts then in 1739 developed his own in that part of Augusta County that is now Rockingham. It was called the Borden Grant and was near another large grant called the Beverly Grant.
There are some Quakers who purchased land from
Jost Hite in the Sherrando Tract who are reflected among the later records
of Hopewell Meeting as well as witnessing wills of other Quakers.
The Hollingsworths were a prominent Quaker family at Hopewell, yet Abraham, Henry,
and Zebulon's deeds are not reflected in either tract.
The Hite family spread further south and west. They were in Southwest
Virginia and Kentucky beginning in the 1870's.
Neil Thompson
139
Samuel Morris 378
David Perkins 519
William Jay
Thomas Johnson
Richard Morgan 280
Richard Pendal 300
William Jasper 62
Peter Woolf
600
Robert McKay Junior 828 (A Quaker)
Jacob (?) Josiah(?) Frend 300
Daniel Burnett 430
Samuel Taylor 125
Peter Stephens 674
Robert Worthington 1020
Abraham Pennington
600 acres
Isaac Pennington 500
Paul Williams 270
George Williams 489
Isaac Garrison 200
Thomas Shepherd 228
William (?)___ stall
Benjamin Borden 3143 (A Quaker)
Benjamin Borden, with
Andrew Hampton and Davis or
David Griffith 1122
Josiah Jones
164
John Branson 1000
Thomas Branson Jr. 1370
Morgan Bryant 1250
(Morgan Bryan??)
