1736: THOMAS IN VIRGINIA, SHENANDOAH VALLEY
"The History of Hardy County, 1786-1986" by Richard MacMaster:
"Lord Fairfax visited the Shenandoah Valley in 1736.... He met with Yost Hite and others who had purchased land on the VanMeter grants. He went on to the home of Thomas Branson, a Quaker from New Jersey, who had purchased 1,370 acres in the lower Shenandoah Valley. Branson's acreage was small in comparison to the large-scale speculations of his son-in-law, Benjamin Borden, another Jersey Quaker with huge grants in western Virginia. Fairfax told Branson and his sons that a legal victory for the Northern Neck Proprietary would make no difference to settlers, it would only mean 'a changing of landlords' and 'paying quitrents to him instead of to the King.' Fairfax wanted the Bransons and the other settlers to stay. he was 'desirous of having the land settled' and he did not any 'poor man to quit the place for want of land.' Fairfax assured Branson that he would honor all the Virginia grants and existing claims on his own land."
"Lord Fairfax visited the Shenandoah Valley in 1736.... He met with Yost Hite and others who had purchased land on the VanMeter grants. He went on to the home of Thomas Branson, a Quaker from New Jersey, who had purchased 1,370 acres in the lower Shenandoah Valley. Branson's acreage was small in comparison to the large-scale speculations of his son-in-law, Benjamin Borden, another Jersey Quaker with huge grants in western Virginia. Fairfax told Branson and his sons that a legal victory for the Northern Neck Proprietary would make no difference to settlers, it would only mean 'a changing of landlords' and 'paying quitrents to him instead of to the King.' Fairfax wanted the Bransons and the other settlers to stay. he was 'desirous of having the land settled' and he did not any 'poor man to quit the place for want of land.' Fairfax assured Branson that he would honor all the Virginia grants and existing claims on his own land."
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