"Marilyn A. Owen" wrote: > On the advice of Bill Breedlove, I'm posting a Charlotte Co., VA > record I found at Salt Lake last week. Perhaps Bill can explain why > he finds this record so significant. > BREEDLOVE, KINDNESS > >From Charlotte Co., VA Order Book 10, p. 111 LDS Film # 1939971 > "James Shorter Son and heir of Kindness Breedlove > deceased, William Sammons and Elizabeth his wife > Stephen Shelton & Sina his wife, William Stambrizes [?] and > Kindness his wife, children of James Breedlove decd. - Plaintiffs > Against > Thomas Pettus and John Pettus Executors of Robert > Breedlove deceased. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Plaintifs In Chancary > On motion of the Plaintifs by their attorney who having filed this > Bill It is ordered that the Rule obtained in the office for a > dismission for want of bill, be set aside and that the cause be sent > to the Rules." This just enumerates the only known children of James Breedlove (who I believe is the son of James & Lucrecy Breedlove) whose wife was Kindness. She had been previously married to John Shorter who died in 1758 in Lunenburg Co., VA, with one son James Shorter by that marriage. James and Kindness had the three daughters, Elizabeth who married William Sammons, Sina who married Stephen Shelton, and Kindness who married William Stembridge. Why the action against Robert Breedlove's estate is unknown but this Robert is assumed to be the son of James and Lucrecy Breedlove, and therefore a brother of James who married Kindness. This then would be the heirs of one brother suing the estate of another brother. Thomas and John Pettus (from another of my lines) were said to be excellent litigators so there must have been good cause that their motion for dismissal was denied and the action set for full hearing on the merits. Tom King