Settlement Map, Franklin County, VA See scale of map at top right. Adam Hartzell lived in top left of county, about 5 miles west of Boone Mill, near James McVey and the Websters, in the Blackwater River Valley. Philip Hartzell's 1792 land purchase was apparently SW of Boone Mill between (and touching both) Mill Creek and Little Creek, probably touching William Griffith's land.