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The Home on Hollowing Creek

Louisa County, Virginia

A superb piece of research in September 1992 by Bill and Bonnie Darwin of Grand Terrace, California, successfully located William Darwin's 100 acre tract (Bill and Bonnie Darwin, Newsletter of 1 December 1992, who also provided the following photgraphs). The house on the site has been identified as 18th Century and may have been built by William Darwin, or perhaps by his son Jesse. The site is off Route 608 near its intersection with Route 701 (identified as the Old Bethany Church Road) very close to the border of Hanover County: the modern address of the property is 265 Signboard Road, Bumpass, Virginia 23024 (N 37 54'01.44", W 77 44'54.11").

The property is identified in Chisholm, Claudia Anderson and Lillie, Ellen Gray: Old Home Places of Louisa County (1979: Louisa County Historical Society) as follows (the form of the name "Durvin" is considered in Chapter II):

Bill and Bonnie Darwin also commissioned a title search establishing chain of title back to William Darwin and his wife in 1746 (which tends to confirm the Theory B interpretation of the Indenture of that date). Search undertaken by Valerie G. Waller of the Louisa Title Company (310 E. Main St., Louisa, Virginia); title works back to Darwin ownership as follows:

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