Exactly where and when was Robert Looney's first...

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" height="90" BGCOLOR="#99CCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0a776bc1egdyqn.gif"><div><b><font SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial"><p>Looney Book</font>   |   <a HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Looney Book"><u>home</u></a></b></p> </div><div><b><p>Exactly where and when was Robert Looney's first...</b>   |   <a HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where was Looneys Mill?"><u>Where was Looney's Mill?</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Happened to Looneys Ferry"><u>What Happened to Looney's Ferry</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Exactly where was the Looney Land?"><u>Exactly where was the Looney Land?</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What was the importance..."><u>What was the importance...</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why was Looneys Ferry ..."><u>Why was "Looney's Ferry ...</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What were Robert Looneys contributions?"><u>What were Robert Looney's contributions?</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where was Looneys Ferry?"><u>Where was Looney's Ferry?</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why did Robert Looney sell..."><u>Why did Robert Looney sell...</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What is known about Robert Looneys house"><u>What is known about Robert Looney's house?</u></a>   |   <a HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where did Robert and Elizabeth Looney li"><u>Where did Robert and Elizabeth Looney live...</u></a></p> </div><div></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="390" BGCOLOR="#99CCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0a776ba3.gif"><div><b><font SIZE="5" COLOR="#6633CC" FACE="Arial"><p>             </font>   Exactly where and when was Robert Looney's</b></p> </div><div><b><p>                          first settlement in Virginia?</b></p> </div><div><font SIZE="5" COLOR="#6633CC" FACE="Arial"><b><p>     </b></font>Until the publication<b> </b>of <i>Most Distinguished Characters</i> (1998), it had not been established in information widely read by the Looney family where Robert Looney first settled in Virginia.  Leroy W. Tiliton, in his manuscripts, refers to the location as being on the upper Potomac, which he knew from the 1736 patent for 294 acres.  He mentions that it must have been near Hagerstown, Maryland, since tradition holds that one of Robert Looney's children went to school near there.  Some writers have incorrectly stated that Robert Looney lived in Maryland before moving to Virginia.</p> </div><p><br> </p> <div><p>     In 1995 Phillip L. Crane discovered Robert Luny's name on the 1736 Benjamin Winslow map, which locates his land in Virginia on the south side of Potomac River about 2 1/2 miles above the present town of Williamsport, Maryland.  About the same time (1995) Cecil O'Dell  published<i> Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia</i>, which locates on maps the exact location of Robert Luna's land.  This source also revealed that Robert Brooke's surveys and Benjamin Winslow's field notes were available at the Virginia Historical Society.</p> </div><p><br> </p> <div><p>     These three sources (Winslow map, Brooke's survey, and Winslow's field notes) indicate the date and exact location of Robert Looney's first settlement in Virginia.  This information along with a detailed description of the other conditions (Indian problems, boundary disputes, remoteness, etc.) appears in <i>Most Distinguished Characters on the American Frontier</i> on pp. 83-99.<font SIZE="5" COLOR="#6633CC" FACE="Arial"><b>          <img SRC="0c9ee3c0.gif" border="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" width="750" height="316"></b></font></p> </div><div><b><p>     </b><font SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial"> A small section of Benjamin Winslow's map (1736).  Rob Luny's name was not recognized on this map at first (see number 8).  The name Sam Owen was discovered first.  Robert Luna's 1735 patent of 294 acres states "near a ford where they cross the Cohongor[o]nto to Samuel Owens Plantation..."</font></p> </div><div><p>     <img SRC="0cac05b0.gif" border="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" width="704" height="347">                    </p> </div><div><p>     Robert Brooke's survey and plat of Robert Luna's 294 acres on December 18, 1734.  Peter Looney (son of Robert Looney) gave an account in a London newspaper, stating that he was born in Philadelphia about 1734.  Based on these dates, Robert Looney probably first settled in Virginia in 1734-35.</p> </div><p><br> </p> <div><p>                                   <font SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial"><a HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WHATS NEW IN LOONEY BOOK?"><u><b>BACK TO WHAT'S NEW</b></u></a></font></p> </div><p><br> </td> </tr> </table> </bod> </body>