Research map — staged
Migration Path: Virginia to Alabama
Tracing the Jones/Anderson/Donnell/Perkins network from Louisa and Bedford counties, Virginia to Madison County, Alabama and on to Tuscaloosa — each verified waypoint carrying its source, and speculative links marked as such.
How to read this map. This is a schematic diagram, not a geographic map — node positions show relative order (Virginia → Alabama), not real distances or coordinates. A solid navy node is a verified waypoint; a dashed amber node is under review — an area of interest with no sourced stop plotted. Solid lines are documented movements; dashed lines are speculative links. Click any node for its sourced detail.
Waypoints, with sources
Map data & sources
- Louisa County, Virginia, "Register of marriages, Louisa County, Virginia, 1766-1861," DGS 007578998 (film 32190), image 61 of 527 — signed-in FamilySearch read, 2026-09-23 ("Llewellin Jones" to "Mary Anderson," October 22, 1792; consent of Nelson Anderson father; surety Alexander Anderson; witnesses Martin Baker, Andrew Thomson).
- Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office (BLM GLO) — Lewellen Jones's seven November 20, 1818 patents (Credit Volume, Harrison Land Act of April 15, 1800), Huntsville Meridian, Madison County, Alabama.
- Hubbs, "On the Razor's Edge," Alabama Heritage (Fall 2020) — Shandy Wesley Jones in Tuscaloosa by 1837, free Black barber, Tuscaloosa County legislator 1868–70 (via Hoksbergen & DeNeefe, Alabama Review 79(3), July 2026).
- Counter-Archive research notes — Bedford County chancery cases (Bedford 019) queued for the next read batch; no waypoint claimed there yet.
- Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division (public-domain reference maps): Map of Berkeley County, West Virginia and Map of Jefferson County, Virginia (sheet dates unverified — confirm on the item pages); MacRae-Brazier map of North Carolina, 1833 (shows Franklin County); Tennessee, Civil War era (Tennessee River valley coverage). Reference layers for the origin points, not project data.
More Maps in This Project
GLO Patent Map: The Jones Patents →
Schematic township plats of the Jones-family federal land patents, 1814–1833, from BLM GLO records.
Cemetery Map →
Burial grounds with verified locations — and an honest list of the ones that can't be pinned yet.
Convict-Leasing Geography →
Jefferson County mine sites and the Madison County origin question, drawn as a clearly-labeled schematic.
Avalon Plantation Boundary (working map) →
The core spatial claim, staged honestly: what the boundary question is and what would resolve it.
If you have documents or family knowledge on the Jones, Anderson, Donnell, or Perkins migration paths, please get in touch.