Patrick, I was so excited to get the Aiken/Akin information you sent to me, that I forgot to thank you. I have so enjoyed adding to what you sent and hope to send you the local lines as I complete them. Again, a great BIG...........THANK YOU. Wanda At 01:37 AM 01/06/99 -1000, you wrote: > For those of you on the hunt for the wife of Lewis Akin's >ancestery, I have found clues from Charlotte Co. Order books that it is >not his wife that is related to Francis Mann, but rather, Lewis himself. >This can be indicative if he was filing his rights on behalf of himself. > > As some of you know, Lewis Akin assigned Benjamin Kevill to >basically act as his attorney to secure his rights under the Laws of >Dowership. Indeed Ben Kevill sued Page Mann and succeded in winning the >suit. The order books only indicate the amout of the suit and the amount >awarded. It does not indicate why. > Anyway, as you know, Page Mann was a brother of Francis Mann as >indicated in his will of 1768. One important record about 1790 demands >Page Mann, and says "surviving executor" of Francis Mann, to appear >before the court to give a final settlement. This record shows that Page >Mann was apprently old and was refering to the will of 1768. At any >rate, Page Mann was not listed in the month he was ordered to appear. >But he apparently lost his roll of administrator the estate. At a date >in 1791 several other men were appointed to adminstrator the estate >which was ordered to be recorded. > I have again reordered the microfilm for the Will books in hopes of >finding the final estate settlement records. Fingers crossed. > Godspeed.....Patrick > > >