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From: "Erin Bradford" <>
Subject: Re: [COVENTRY-L] New to the list -- William Coventry
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:15:38 PST


>In Mercer County, Kentucky Richard Sinnett sold land to William
>Coventry Nov 30 1785, 1789. Richard renews twice. This info was >taken
from a little red entry book for 1779-1814 Pg 39, 53 located in >the
Court house.

Hi. Found another land entry for Wm. and this is what I was thinking of
when I said that KY land grants may be on line. So far, I haven't been
able to find them and frankly, I'm not even sure how I got this, but I
know I got it off line. Here it is:

Grantee: Coventry, William
Acres: 7
Book: 13
Page: 626
Date of Survey: 20 September 1797
County: Mercer
Watercourse: Town Cr

I knew when you said Mercer Co., KY that it looked familiar, this is one
of the Coventry people I have looked at in the past to see if there is a
connection, but gave up on last year because i couldn't find anything on
him. I had to do a little digging in finding this, but I did. Now,
again, do you know his son's, grandson's name? where they moved to,
etc.? I have a Wm. Coventry in IL and PA in the mid 1800's and I am
trying to find where they came from. It is possible that this line went
from VA>KY>PA>IL and William appears about 3 times in my line in the
1800s. I know there is an Alexander Coventry, etc. in NY in the 1700s,
but something tells me that is not who I'm trying to find. Also, you
may want to check out: http://w3.one.net/~durp/grants.htm It is all
about Mercer County. I already scouted out the site for coventry with
no luck, but it does show the formation of the county. That said, you
may want to check for Wm. in some records in VA in the mid/early 1700s
in these counties: Fincastle, Kentucky (the county, not the state), and
Lincoln Co. (KY). Also, the library of VA has a few books you may to
look into: Personal Prob. Tax lists for Merer Co 1787, 1789 and then
Legislative Petitions for Kentucky Co 1776-1780, Lincoln Co. 1783-1790,
Mercer Co. 1786-1789. The homepage about the VA lib. is:
http://vlinsvr.vsla.edu/mailarch/va_hist/1997/apr97/msg00178.html

Good luck!:) and be sure to let me know about the descendants, and any
new info you find.

Erin Bradford


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