Fauquier During the Proprietorship: A Chronicle of the Colonization and Organization of a Northern Neck County [Virginia]The first half of the book is an important collection of early records of Fauquier County consisting of abstracts and land grants and patents for land from 1600-1800. Mr. Groome also provides extensive footnotes identifying many of the early settlers and their families. The second half of the book chronicles the religious and political organization of the county and the eventual dissolution of the proprietorship. G2085HB - $24.00 |
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