Northern Neck Proprietary


  • Vicinity: Bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in Colonial Virginia

Northern Neck Proprietary was a 5,000,000 acre (20,000 km2) English land grant in the unsettled region between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers in the Virginia Colony. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1649/09/00 Charles II of England Sovereign King Charles II grants to Sir John Colepeper and six other supporters all of Virginia between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers as a Proprietary.
1681/00/00 Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, acquires all rights to organize the Northern Neck territory and collect rents.
1688/00/00 King James II issues a patent confirming Thomas Colepeper rights to the Northern Neck territory.
1688/00/00 At his death, Thomas Colepeper rights to the Northern Neck Proprietary pass to his daughter, Catherine, wife of Thomas, fifth Lord Fairfax.
1702/00/00 Robert Carter I Work Thomas Lord Fairfax appoints Robert Carter as the proprietary resident land agent to administer the Northern Neck lands and collect the rents. Carter will work until 1711.
1719/00/00 Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron Proprietor Thomas Fairfax inherits the five million acre Northern Neck grant in Virginia from his mother, a daughter of Thomas, Lord Culpeper.
1722/00/00 Robert Carter I Work Robert Carter works as Proprietor agent for another Lord Fairfax administering the Northern Neck lands. Mr Carter will maintain this position until 1732.

Places

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Bull Run Land Track
Fairfax Stone Site
Greenway Court, Virginia


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