SIMS INDEX TO
LAND GRANTS IN WEST VIRGINIA
Hampshire
County VA
1762 - 1863
The
land grants listed herein were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the
creation of the Virginia Land Office; by the Commonwealth of
Virginia, of lands now embracing the State of West Virginia; and, by
the State of West Virginia, under its first Constitution. Preparation
of this index was made pursuant to Chapter 120, Acts of the 1951
Session of the West Virginia Legislature.
The
information contained herein was compiled after an exhaustive and
careful page-by-page examination of the copies of land grants filed
in my office, and no effort has been spared to assure that the
spellings of the names of grantees, location and descriptions of
tracts, are accurate as herein listed. Many variations of spellings
of grantees' names were encountered, and required indexing under each
spelling, or as a repetition of the names in a different spelling as
shown in parentheses. In case of doubt as to correct spellings, due
to illegibility of some of the penmanship, careful comparisons were
made with the land books of the Commissioner of Revenue, now the
Assessor, of the county in which the tract is located.
The
editorial work and preparation of this index was done by Mary F.
Tessiatore, Mary E. Easton, Spurgeon H. White, and Keith Clark, under
the supervision of James M. Hardman, Chief of the Lnad Department of
my office.
Edgar
B. Sims
State Auditor
Charleston.
West Virginia, 1952
This
information is taken from the "Sims Index-Land Grants in West
Virginia" by Edgar B. Sims, State Auditor. Our Special thanks to
Mr. Russell Rollyson, Director - County Collections Division of the
West Virginia State Auditor's Office for granting us permission to
use this information on the Mineral County Site.