All volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers are on sale for $5.00 each through 1 November 2023.
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Cavaliers and Pioneers (C&P) Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Volumes 4 through 8 1732-1782. Denis Hudgins, editor.
Read more about this valuable series in an article, “Cavaliers and Pioneers: Not Just a Record of Land Patents,” written by Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS, for The VGS Newsletter https://www.vgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CandP_Article.pdf.
Each volume contains an Introduction that includes information about Virginia’s history, migrations, and settlements as well as the process for obtaining land both before and after the Revolutionary War. The introductions are written by prominent Virginia historians and researchers such as Daphne Gentry, Robert Young Clay, and John M. Hemphill II.
Volume IV: This continuation of Nell Marion Nugent’s work begins with Patent Book 15, and covers the years 1732–1741. xxxviii + 393 pp., cloth; (1994). ISBN: 1-888192-10-0 Out of Stock
Volume V: This continuation of Nell Marion Nugent’s work begins with Patent Book 20, and covers the years 1741–1749. xii + 477 pp., cloth; (1995). ISBN: 1-888192-11-9 Regularly $30.00
Volume VI: This continuation of Nell Marion Nugent’s work begins with Patent Book 29, and covers the years 1749–1762. xxii + 552 pp., cloth; (1998). ISBN: 1-888192-12-7 Regularly $40.00
Volume VII: This continuation of Nell Marion Nugent’s work covers Patent Books 35 through 42, 1762–1776. xc + 489 pp., cloth; (1999). ISBN: 1-888192-13-5 Regularly $40.00
Volume VIII: This continuation of Nell Marion Nugent’s work covers Grant Books A-F, 1779–1782. xxxii + 412 pp, cloth (2005). ISBN: 1-888192-14-3 Regularly Out of Stock
Note: C&P Volumes 1 through 3, covering the years 1623–1732, and a supplement covering Northern Neck Grants from 1690–1692, abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent and published by the Library of Virginia, are available for sale from The Virginia Shop at the Library of Virginia (https://www.thevirginiashop.org/). Heritage Books also carries Volumes 1 through 3 and the supplement. VGS Members be sure to log in to the VGS website, click on Membership and then Partner Discounts to get the 15% off member code for Heritage Books.