Related Records

1. Bond Forms - February 17, 1752

   Bond forms used in sale of land owned by James Patton and others. Two were executed: one to John Huggins, February 7, 1752; one to Michael Daugherty and William Cleghorn, February 17, 1753, unsigned. Several unused slightly different versions are included in this booklet.

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2. Deposition - June 27, 1769

   Deposition of Colonel John Buchanan, certified by and before William Preston, a Justice of Augusta County, on June 27, 1769. Establishes his 1/3 interest in money received for land called "Patton's Bottom" on the north fork of the Roanoke River, sold by executor of Patton's estate to James Bryan, millright, but owned jointly by Patton, Buchanan, and James Campbell.

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3. Draper's Meadows: The Facts and Fiction of Early Settlement - September 22 1968

   Newspaper clipping on the early history of Draper's Meadow. In 1755, Draper's Meadow witnessed a massacre of the settlement by Native Americans, along with the capture of Mary Draper Ingles. This article discusses the area, as well as a number of the early settlers in southwestern Virginia.

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4. Floyd County Celebration - July 4, 1931

   A four-page typescript titled "Floyd County Celebration, July 4, 1931", compiled by Dr. W. C. Campbell.

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5. Petition - 1778

   Petition to the House of Delegates dated 1778 to confirm the late James Patton's petition for 100,000 acres, (of which only a portion remains); states that Patton secured the required settlers but because of the French and Indian War of 1755, county records are incomplete.

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6. Proclamation - October 10, 1746

   Proclamation - a true copy of an instrument setting forth terms of sale of 100,000 acres on Woods River and two rivers to the west granted to Col. James Patton, Col. James Wood, Col. John Buchanan, and Capt. George Robinson. Dated October 10, 1746. States prices and various conditions, including that purchasers must "settle, cultivate, improve, and be dwelling thereon" by specified date.

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7. Southwest Corner - n.d.

   Newspaper clipping cut from the Roanoke Times written by Goodridge Wilson, Southwest Virginia historian and presbyterian minister. The article is about James Patton, considered by Goodridge to be the father of Southwest Virginia.

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8. Springhill, the old James Patton place. - This view of the home site of James Patton's "Springhill", with the spring at the left and the hill in the foreground, was taken just up the hill from the old house site. The large drain from the spring is seen flowing into South River. Thhe location of this site is on the farm of John Britton, two miles east of Stuarts Draft, Virginia.

   1990.69.1148d

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