Folks got busy doing their survey work the summer of 1774. An "official" survey office was finally organized and accepted under the colony of Virginia [Fincastle County]. Page 1, Plot Book A, states :
"Warrants to Officers & Soldiers from the Earl of Dunmore directed to the Surveyor of Fincastle County and by him recorded with the several assignments thereon".
The official directions were included in the very first survey recorded "28th day of February 1774". In effect, having served as an officer or soldier in the years prior to 1763, you were "entitled" to land "...agreeable to His Majesty's proclamation in the year 1763...". It went on to say, "...being desirous to locate the same in Fincastle County on any of the western waters if he can lay it on any vacant lands that have not been surveyed by order of council or patented since the above Proclamation...". The surveyors were "...strictly authorised and required to survey the same."
So there you have it. Lands were to be in Fincastle County. They were to be on water courses (western waters) were the land had not already been surveyed. [Some land had already been surveyed in 1773, but the patents had been denied official recognition. ] It was this summer, the summer of 1774, that the first surveys were made on the lands that were to become Danville, KY.
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