Robert Looney
by Elsie Wood Stroud
Created by Edward G. Looney
(9th generation) on April 3rd,
1998.
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A part of a larger "booklet"
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ROBERT LOONEY was one of seventy families that entered the Quaker Colony of
Virginia with Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan, of the Province of Pennsylvania.
The colony bought 100,000 acres of land near Winchester, Virginia, and among the
purchasers is listed the name of Robert Looney. Robert also received a Patent
from the Crown, George II, dated 12 November 1735, for 294 acres on the south
bank of the Cohongoronta (Upper Potomac) River, "near the Samuel Owens plantation".
Robert also received a "grant" of 250 acres on the James River, and 400 acres
30 July 1742 on "Lunie's Mill Creek". This land is not far from Natural Bridge in
what became Augusta County, in 1738, and became a part of Botetourt County, Virginia
in 1770.
Robert Looney purchased a large tract of land in Botetourt County on upper
James River, something over 500 acres, across the river from Buchanan.
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