Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia

The information contained in this exhaustive compilation was compiled by Edgar Sims the State Auditor of West Virginia from copies of land grants filed in his office. More than 50000 entries are included each containing the name of the grantee amount of acreage location and date of grant and the grant book and page numbers. Sims meticulously examined each record to ensure that the spellings of the names of grantees location and descriptions of tracts were accurate and that any variations of spellings of grantees' names were also indexed or noted. Records are listed for Barbour Berkeley Boone Braxton Brooke Cabell Calhoun Clay Doddridge Fayette Gilmer Grant Greenbrier Hampshire Hancock Hardy Harrison Jackson Jefferson Kanawha Lewis Logan Marion Marshall Mason McDowell Mercer Monongalia Monroe Morgan Nicholas Ohio Pendleton Pleasants Pocahontas Preston Putnam Raleigh Randolph Ritchie Roane Taylor Tucker Tyler Uphur Wayne Webster Wetzel Wirt Wood and Wyoming counties West Virginia as well as for the portions of Augusta Bath Botetourt Frederick Montgomery Russell Tazewell and Wythe counties Virginia that were used in the formation of West Virginia. In a great many cases the land grants indexed here pre-date the earliest extant census records or supplement existing census records and are thus indispensable for finding individuals who lived in the area that later became West Virginia.