"Marilyn A. Owen" wrote: > BREEDLOVE, ALBEMARLE CO., VA COURT RECORDS > From LDS Film #0030261 > COURT, SEPTEMBER 1816 > JAMES BREEDLOVE, Complainant > Against > NATHAN T. BREEDLOVE, William Smith & Elizabeth his wife which said > William Smith is adminstrator of MADISON BREEDLOVE deceased, > Augustine Lanford and Nancy his wife, ELLIOT B. BREEDLOVE, ABSOLOM > BREELOVE and JANE BREEDLOVE, ....... The exact reference is Albemarle Will Book 5, pg 82 Division of Estate pg 101 Inventory of Estate pg 165 Accounting of Administration Nancy's husband is Augustine SANFORD, Jr. The curly shaped S looks like an L but is really an "S". They had 11 children. Another reference is Albemarle Loose Guardian Bonds, 3 Sep 1810, Parent Madison Breedlove, Orphans Polly, Aylett, Absolom W., and Jane Breedlove, Guardian William Smith (Sadler), $500 lbs, security Dabney Minor, Peter Minor and Samuel Carr. Note that Madison's daughter Polly is not mentioned in the further court records so I presume she died before 1816. The Aylett or Elliott B. Breedlove is Aglette Benjamin Breedlove who married Mary Woods in Tennessee. Absalom W. Breedlove married Susanna Clark in Mississippi and came to Texas c1832. There is no mention anywhere else in these records of a son James Waller Breedlove who has been presumed to be a brother of Absolom Breedlove. James Waller Breedlove administered the estate of Absolom which mainly consisted of land received for service at the Battle of San Jacinto for Texas Independence. James Waller did live in Louisiana at the time so it is assumed that the complainant James Breedlove is the same as James Waller Breedlove. The big question now seems to be who were Madison's parents and who ere his wife Judith Buckner's parents? Judith appears to have been an orphan herself. For a long time Madison has been presumed to be the son of Thomas Breedlove and Sarah Broaddus, which I have rather accepted on faith with no positive proof. The 1803 will of William Breedlove in King William County with a son Madison makes me question the original presumed parentage. Tom King