History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA CHAPTER X PRE-REVOLUTIONARY DAYS page 144 Williams, John Salmon, Robert Payne,26 Jonathan Hanby, William Peters Martin, Jehu Morton,27 Charles Connors, Richard Gwynne, John Smith, Edmund Lyne, Joshua Abston,28 and James Hix; Lieutenants: Stephen Coleman, Joseph Terry, Thomas Withers, William Ward, Robert Boreman, Thomas Smith, Charles Burke, Bartlett Williams, Samuel Shields, John Strong, Spencer Shelton, Reuben Payne, Beverley Shelton, John Morton, Isaac Clement, James George, Tully Choice, Jr., Edmund Cheat, Thomas Jones, Sr., George Hairston, Bryce Martin, David Lanier, George Waller, John Cunningham, Frederick Fulkerson, Elisha Shelton, Benjamin Hursely; Ensigns: Charles Irby, Joseph Terry (son of Joseph), George Carter, William Been, Samuel Bolling, Thomas Black, John Wynne, William Dix, John Fulton, Thomas Smith, Edmund Taylor, Armisted Shelton, John Payne, Lyrus Roberts, William Short, Joseph Farrar, William Estes, Levinfield Heit, Peter Vardaman, James Poteet, John Wells, James Taylor, James Anthony, David Chockwell, John Parr, Leonard Carter, John Rentfro." THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA CHAPTER XII PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY IN 1777 The early settler usually brought books among his household effects. Not many inventories were made prior to 1770, but from then on through the eighties we find books generally listed in the settlement of all estates. Books were mentioned in the following early inventories: Joshua Wor-sham, Patrick Shields, Ambrose Porter, Patrick Still, William Compton, James King, John Fulton, Isaac Dodson, Elijah Harbour, James Hix, John Hutchings, John Creel, Stephen Heard, Thomas Williamson, Samuel Crawley, James Bartlett, John Stewart, Ayres Hodnett, David Nance, Abram Motley, James and Benjamin Clement, William Wynne, Arthur Hopkins, John Lewis (of the Byrd), Constant Perkins, Francis Luck, John Pigg, Hezekiah Pigg, Thomas Jones, Epharodius White, John Hill, William Astin, Thomas Vaughan, Thomas Lester, Thomas Ramsey, John Pannill, James Buckley, Haynes Morgan and many others.