When Ancestry migrated and made "read only" the legacy RootsWeb platform, which was the host site for the Dinwiddie County, Virginia USGenWeb pages, some early pre-2006 USGenWeb transcriptions were not transferred to modern servers and became unavailable to researchers. As part of our Dinwiddie County USGenWeb Record Recovery Project, we are actively recovering and republishing these lost resources into our updated local repository.
Special Thanks: We extend our sincere gratitude to former County Coordinator Carol A. Morrison (Fayetteville, NC) for initiating this massive collection of records for Dinwiddie County, Virginia and making the initial records available online.
Recovery Project Notice: The current county coordinator has revived this and subsequent pages on the Lunsford line as part of the 2026 Recovery Project. The county coordinator has no additional information and does not verify the accuracy of the research provided, which is assumed to have been accurate when posted by Carol Morrison c. 1997.
Note: This table includes early land patents for the Harwell family in surrounding and parent counties (such as Prince George, Brunswick, and Lunenburg) that tie into early Dinwiddie County family lineages. Unfortunately several of the Patent images were not archived by the Wayback Machine. It represents legacy research compiled for the site.
| Name | # of Acres | County | Location | Date | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Harwell | 225a | Brunswick | S side of the Three Creeks | 07 Jul 1726 | 12:514 |
| Samuel Harrowell, Junr. | 228a | Brunswick | S side of Nottoway River | 07 Jul 1726 | 12:534 |
| Samuel Harrowell, Senr. | 180a | Brunswick | On Both sides of Sturgeon Run | 28 Apr 1728 | 14:69 / 70 |
| Samuel Harwell | 195a | Brunswick | N side of Roanoak River on Allens Creek | 23 Mar 1733 | 15:190 / 191 |
| John Harwell | 229a | Brunswick | S side of the Three Creeks | 05 Sep 1749 | 28:671 / 672 |
| James Harwell | 554a | Brunswick | Both sides of Little Creek, adj. Mumford, Adkins and others | 10 Sep 1755 | 31:744 |
| Samuel Harwall | 161a | Brunswick | Adj. Battersby's, High's and Skipwith's lines | 16 Aug 1756 | 33:323 |
| George Harwell | 16a | Greensville | Adj. land of Anderson, Daniel Nolley, and Nehemiah Nolley | 03 Oct 1796 | Grant 34:688 / 689 |
| James Harwell | 373a | Lunenburg | Adj. Lankford's lines | 10 Mar 1756 | 34:49 |
| James Harwell | 1140a | Lunenburg | Both sides of the Easternmost fork of the Great Creek, adj. Langford's line | 07 Aug 1761 | 33:1089/1090 |
| Samuel Harrowell | 218a | Prince George | N side of Nottoway River; Beg. on the River above the mouth of Horsepen Branch | 17 Aug 1720 | 11:37 / 38 |
| John Harrowell | 183a | Prince George | N side of Nottoway River; adj. Samuel Harrowell's line | 22 Jun 1722 | 11:113 |
| Mark Harrowell | 338a | Prince George | N side of Nottoway River; adj. John & Samuel Harrowell | 28 Sep 1730 | 14:17 / 18 |
| Peter Harwell | 198a | Prince George | N side of the Indian Swamp; adj. Henry Spire & John Roberts | 30 Aug 1744 | 23:741 |
| Thomas Harwell | 200a | Prince George | On the Reedy Branch of the Indian Swamp; adj. Peter Harwell and others | 20 Sep 1751 | 31:72/73 |
| William Harwell | 150a | Prince George | N side of the Indian Swamp | 16 Aug 1756 | 33:221 / 222 |
| Richard Harwell | 233½a | Sussex | Adj. Thomas Chappell, James Gibbins, & Isham Porch | 09 Jul 1787 | Grant 12:278 / 279 |
Transcriptions by Carol A. Morrison, April 8, 1997
To view the original 2005 snapshot of this index page as archived during the RootsWeb era, Internet Archive Wayback Machine Record (February 7, 2005) .
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