| A comprehensive guide to pre-1900 land records in West Virginia, our facsimile reprint of Sims Index lists land grants that were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the creation of the Virginia Land Office in 1779, as well as grants issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia for land now located in West Virginia, and by the State of West Virginia under its first Constitution. The information contained in this exhaustive work was compiled by Edgar Sims, the State Auditor of West Virginia from copies of land grants filed in his office. More than 50,000 entries are incuded, each referring to the name of the grantee, amount of acreage, location and date of grant, and grant book and page number. - United States - West Virginia - |
