Deeds, Land & Estates

Deeds - Grantee	Description
1746 Lunenburg County Land Owners	John Phelps, Cornelius Cargill, William Caldwell, Mathew Talbot, Lydall Bacon, Hugh Lawson and Lewis Delony
1751 Durham Hall estate advertisement	Advertisement that ran in Williamsburg's Virginia Gazette on April 18, 1751 Transcribed from microfilm, March 24, 2001 by Robert Hall Barton
1753 Daniel Williams - Mecklenburg	Pat. 420 acres (PBk31:349), transf. to Henry Williams 1757 (Lun.DB5:52); also 1768/69 deed Susanna Fleming 708 acres to Jesse Saunders, (Lun DB11:269) includes land within the meanders.
1755 Hugh Miller	3604 acres (PBk31:748)(in part) including the 1254 acres granted 1748-above. (840 acres of this tract would be owned by John Gregory in 1813.) As above, includes the 1768 Jesse Saunders tract.
1813-1835 - John Gregory, Thomas Erskine, William Evans (part) - Lunenburg	John Gregory land description - in Lunenburg
1814 Survey - Benjamin Evans estate - Lunenburg, Mecklenburg & Charlotte	Image from Lunenburg order book, both sides South Fork in Lunenburg, Charlotte and Mecklenburg
1820 Lee Hall - Land History	Noted in the 1820 Lunenburg County land tax list as a new house valued at $1000, the historic home of the Henderson Lee family, Lee Hall, was removed from its original site on Crooked Creek in Lunenburg County shortly after the beginning of the 21st century. The land history of this site began in 1751 with a patent of 2000 acres to John Edloe the younger.
1847 John Lee of the Town of Petersburg	Lunenburg Co., VA DB 34:307 Dated 5 Nov 1847; Recorded 11 Nov 1847 Grantor: Henry G. Hardy Exor. of Charles Hardy dec'd and Sally J. Hardy widow of said Charles Hardy, acting by the consent of the legatees of the said Charles Hardy Dec'd of the county of Lunenburg, state of VA Grantee: John Lee of the Town of Petersburg $1442.25 Tract of land in co of Lunenburg 641 ½ acres the half acre is hereby reserved as the family burying ground being the land on which the said Charles Hardy dec'd lived on and bounded on west by Henry Hardy, north and east by A. B. Cralle, south by Miles Hardy and David Street. Sig: Henry G. Hardy; Sally J. Hardy
1848 Matthias Boyd	Lunenburg Co., VA DB 34:461 Dated 5 Feb 1848; Recorded 25 Nov 1848 Grantor: John Lee and Martha his wife Grantee: Matthias Boyd $900 400 acres I n Co. of Lunenburg bounded by lands of Henry Hardy, John Lee, Alexander B. Cralle & others. Sig: John Lee; Martha Lee Town of Petersburg To Wit: We Wm Pannill and Jno Pollard, Justices of the Peace in afsd town certify John Lee a party to this deed bearing date 5 Feby 1848 personally appeared before us in our town afsd. 11 Feb 1848
1851 High Gate Creek	Mary Burns,Wyatt T. Newcomb (Taxed to Mary J. Newcomb in 1863.), John A. Rutledge, Allen A. Burwell. Allen Duffer
1855 Branch A. Hatchett of Lunenburg	Lunenburg Co., VA DB 35:686 Dated 21 June 1855; Recorded 12 Nov 1855 Grantor: Martha Lee of City of Petersburg Grantee: Branch A. Hatchett of Lunenburg $500 All her right, title and dower interest in a certain tract of land 241 acres In co. of Lunenburg bounded by Reedy Creek Road, lands of Catharine Hardy, P. H. Roney?, & others, it being the portion of land assigned to Martha Lee as her dower in the lands left by her late husband John Lee deceased. Sig: Martha Lee Note: The marriage bond of John and Martha Lee is in Mecklenburg Co., VA M.B. January 15, 1833, Surety: William S. Wilson, Consent: Miles Hardy, father of Martha. John Lee was son of Capt. Edward Lee Senr of Charlotte and Lunenburg Counties See also John Lee Senior chart
1858 Hyde Saunders - Lunenburg & Mecklenburg	Estate land survey mapped in relation to Jesse Saunders' 1768 deed. - 1858 image from plat book
1859 Ashley S. Robertson, all of Lunenburg	Lunenburg Co., VA DB 36:467 Dated 21 Dec 1859; Recorded 21 Dec 1859 Grantor: Daniel E. Gunn & Tabitha J. Gunn his wife Grantee: Ashley S. Robertson, all of Lunenburg $1300 197 acres Adj. Samuel E. Lee, Nathaniel Pennington, estate of Wm. Keeton & others Sig: D. E. Gunn, Tabitha J. Gunn A letter written by Mary "Stokes" Gregory Nov 24, 1859 to her brother mentions this transaction: "Uncle Daniel Gunn has bought Jno. Hardy's land and Ashley his, so Aunt Tabby [nee Lee & wife of Daniel Gunn/jgs] and Cousin Pattie [wife of Ashley Robertson/jgs] are both bettered so far as houses are concerned. So many changes will take place before your return that you'll hardly know how to 'navigate.'" [Gregory Family Correspondence, 1829-1888 ; and, Josephus Gregory Travel Diary, 1848-1849, Lunenburg County, Virginia, p.98 : J. Spears]
Joseph Gregory; John Gregory; & John Bigger, Jesse Saunders	Southside of South Fork (also part of Jesse Saunders north of South Fork). Joseph Gregory land description - in Mecklenburg John Gregory land description - in Mecklenburg Doct John Bigger land description - in Mecklenburg Jesse Saunders land description - Lunenburg & Mecklenburg Hyde Saunders land description Lunenburg & Mecklenburg Robert Saunders Senr land description - Lunenburg & Mecklenburg
Midlothian	The Southside Virginia Land That Became Midlothian
Saunders Land Transactions	The Saunders family land in Lunenburg and Mecklenburg Counties