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ancis Thornton) Valley stretching from Sperryville to the Rappahannock, Culpeper and Madison county lines.
Francis Thornton obtained a grant of many thousands of acres in present day Rappahannock including the F.T. Valley. He and his children, William, John and Mary, came to this wilderness area about 1740, in part to escape the menace of malaria-bearing mosquitos in
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