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- Mary Denton m. Thomas Little in ORange County, N.Y. They lived for a while in the Haverstraw NY area. They moved with a party of settlers (mostly Dentons, however there was at least one other Little beside Thomas, who is listed in the Orange County, Virginia records as John Littler) to the northern section of Virginia. Mary's father Jonah Denton, along with John Denton (1665) and Thomas Palmer, bought 3,100 acres of bottom land along the North Fork of the Shenandoah River near Tom's Brook. According to Deed book B p. 544, Frederick County Court, Winchester Virginia, dated 8, 20, 1777, the Denton plantation had been bought from Joist Hite for 200 pounds, March 26, 1735. It had not been recorded until 1777 because of the Joist Hite vs.
Thomas Lord Fairfax litigation which began in 1749 and did not end until after the Revolutionary War. Part of Jonah Denton's land was mentioned as being in Augusta County. However, when Jonas and Jane Denton were in their advanced years, Jonah had divided the land among his sons and was "just living on the land". This was prior to 1743. Evidently the squabble between Hite and Thomas Lord Fairfax took its toll on many people. No man wanted to get involved with land that had more than one title. This accounts for the movement of settlements farther north in what is the present Shenandoah and Frederick Counties.
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