Christopher POWELL wrote: >Hello everybody, > This is taken from A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical >and Family Records Vol. 1, by Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.: > >Estate of John Stewart. Pack 31 #5. Clerk of Court Office. Pickens Co, >S.C. (In equity) To Champ Taylor, Elisha Dean, Thomas Lively, Thomas >Garvin, John Lively. You and each of you are commanded and authorized that >your or any three of you do immediatlyon the receipthereof according to the >best of your judgement fairly justly and impartially to partition and divide >a tract of land lying on 12 mile River, containing 1180 acres, being the >land where John Stewart decd. possessed at the time of his death between >Josiah Stuart, John Garden(this name torn) and Patsey his wife, Daniel >Rigsby and Lidia his wife, Clem Emery and Ann his wife, Daniel Garret and >Lavinia his wife, Joseph Stewart, Alpha Stuart, John Stuart heirs at law of >John Stuart decd. and Polly Stuart widow and Allen Powell and (Janey or >Jincey) his wife, Green Stephen and Alpha his wife, the children of the said >John Stuart decd. To them an equal portion. Dated 6 Oct, 1830. By W. L. >Keith, C. C. P. Signed: F. Burt > >I could find no other reference to Allen Powell or Daniel Garrett in >Stewart records in this book, nor more information on John Stewart. I also >haven't been able to find out more about John Stewart anywhere else. > >Chris That's a great find, Chris!! As I read it, there's every possibility that you have found Daniel Garrett's first wife. We've been led to believe that she was a Stuart/Stewart and John Stewart's estate papers name Lavinia. I believe this is something that we will be "taking to the bank". As for the "Allen Powell and (Janey or Jincey) his wife", our Allen would have been 8 years old. Could've been a relative, though. Daniel Jones