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Early Adventurers On Western Waters, 1745 - 1800
Including Goad and some "allied" family surnames, Cox/Cocke, Adkins, Dodson
 From: 
Early Adventures on the Western Waters, Volume I, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745 - 180050

Note:
ONLY SURNAMES IDENTIFIED AS OF INTEREST (OR POTENTIAL INTEREST) ARE INCLUDED HERE. REST OF LISTS ARE EXCLUDED. QUOTATIONS FROM THE REFERENCE ARE IN ITALICS.

 
 
Loyal Company Surveys

Thomas Walker, Esq. on behalf of himself and the other members of the Loyal Land Company, presented to the land Office sometime prior to May 1783, the following list of surveys made for almost 1,000 early adventurers on the Western Waters under the terms of the Loyal Company grant. These records are not individually dated, but from other sources the dates of the survey can usually be obtained. These records were found in the Augusta County Chancery Suit file N.S. 183 (1834), and a similar list was also located in the Loyal Company papers at the Archives, Virginia State Library. The list at the Library is probably more significant because in many instances it shows the name of the person receiving the grant. Some of these were issued as late as 1817. It is apparent that many of those who received the surveys did not remain long enough in the community to receive the grant for the land, and many others transferred their interest to new settlers who perhaps received the grant many years later.
The following list was carefully prepared from both lists mentioned above, but then as now, some writing was difficult to decipher. When there is any doubt about the name, an alternate spelling is given. In some cases, two spellings were given in the original. The numbers which follow the names indicate the number of acres surveyed. In addition to locations on the New River, many of these surveys were located on various branches of the Holston and Clinch rivers.

 Andrew Cox - 102
John Cox - 144
William Cocke - 165
William Cox. grant 1816 to Jeremiah Wilson - 220
John Cox, grant 1797 w George C. Taylor, assignee of John Cox - 188
William Cox - 242
Richard Dodson - 60
Abraham Goad - 100(106)

 
 
A List of Delinquents Returned By Daniel Trigg, Deputy Sheriff, for the Year 1773

 Wm. Cox, Do
Wm Adkins
Ab. Goad, not found
Ab. Goad, Do.

At a court held for Fincastle Dec 6, 1774, this list of delinquuents was recorded by the court and order to be recorded and a copy of the list given to the suceeding sheriff. Signed W. Ingles

 
 
A List of Delinquents Returned By James McGAvock for 1773
William Cox
William Cox
Charles Cox
Abraham Goad, twice returned
 
 
Stephen Trigg took a list of those who swore allegiance in several companies including McCorkle's Cloyd's, Taylor's, Draper's, and Daniel Tigg's. These lists are found on pages 145-148 in the book, Revolutionary War'; filed at the Counthouse in Chnstiansburg

"A list of persons sworn to the State in Capt. Mc Corckle's Company of Montgomery County by Stephen Trigg, in 1777:

John Cox, 25th (December)
Abel Cox
Abraham Goad, Junr.
Abraham Goad
Andrew Cox
Thomas Dodson
William Dodson

 
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