Shenandoah Settlers

in the lower Valley (this section remained primarily English)

6/17/1730 - John Van Meter granted 10,000 acreson the fork of the Shenandoah River and 20,000 acres "not already taken up by Robert Carter".

6/17/1730 - Isaac Van Meter granted 10,000 acres between Carter's land, the River and Opequon Creek.

6/17/1730 - Jacob Stover (a Swiss) granted 10,000 acres (5,000 at Massanutten, 5,000 in Rockingham County)

10/28/1730 - Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan granted 100,000 acres near present day Winchester (Quaker settlement)

6/10/1731 - William Beverly et al. Granted 20,000 acres on the western side of the lower Valley

6/10/1731 - John Fishback et al. Granted 50,000 acres between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River in present day Warren and Page Counties

10/21/1731 - Robert McKay and Joist Hite granted 100,000 acres (McKay was Scots-Irish and this points out why Germans and Scots-Irish co-mingled in the valley near Winchester)

5/5/1732 - Francis Willis et al. granted 10,000 acres on both sides of the South Shenandoah (up to Stover's tract)

10/27/1732 - William Russell granted 20,000 acres near present day Front Royal

10/28/1734 - John Tayloe et al. granted 60,000 acres adjoining Stover's northern tract.

1736 - Benjamin Burdon granted between 100,000 to 500,000 acres in present day Rockbridge and Augusta counties.

For Further Reading:

Kennedy, Billy "The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley" Causeway Press, Londonderry, Northern Ireland: 1996.

Walter, John Wayland, PhD "The German Element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia" C.J. Carrier Company, Harrisonburg, VA: 1978

Early History: The First Explorers

John Lederer's Notes on the Shenandoah Valley

Early History of Berkeley County

Early Landowners and Settlers

Migration Routes from PA to VA

Winchester & Frederick County, Virginia History 17th Century

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