Isaac Van Meter

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A118433

GEDCOM Note

<p> </p><p><p>Isaac Van Meter, who appears to have remained in Virginia, where he married Hattie Beck, a daughter of Lydia Burden (Borden), whose father was Benjamin Burden (Borden) Sr., a very noted land developer in early Virginia. (See Kegley's 'Virginia Frontier, with reference to Borden's Grant). On November 6, 1739, for diverse good causes but more especially in consideration that Benjamin Borden, late of the Province of East Jersey, now of the county of Orange in Virginia hath lately caused to be imported and settled on the land hereinafter mentioned one family for every thousand acres,' there was granted the said Benjamin Borden one certain tract or parcel of land containing 92,100 acres." </p><p><p></p></p><p>Most of the Borden grant was located in present Rockbridge County, Virginia. Perrin's 'History states that Henry Van Meter had, before George Washington's day, surveyed the Fairfax estate, an immense tract of land granted by George III.