On the same day April 11, 1770, Archibald Handley was in court to file a suit against William Doughtery. The outcome is unknown. Alexander Handley was appointed by the Botetourt Court on April 11, 1771, as Surveyor of a road from John Handley's Mill to Gilmore's Gap. On February 9, 1773, the Botetourt Court ordered the Church Wardens of the Botetourt Parish to bind out Moses Handley, a bastard child of Elizabeth Handley, daughter of John I and Grizel Handley, to John Handley according to law. In 1777, John Handley sign a petition to form Greenbrier County, Virginia. Alexander Handley was deceased on October 1, 1781, however his will was not probated until January 10, 1782. The reason for the delay was because he was a prisoner of war at the time of his death. John Handley gave Alexander's son, John Handley (IV), the 300 acre tract of land On the Cowpasture River he had bought in 1762. John (IV) would have been underage on that date. His mother, Mary, was to have all livelihood from the land as long as she remained a widow, and then when John's sister Martha Baker Handley reached legal age, John was to pay her 20 pounds. Since John Handley's wife Grizel, did not appear on the deed, it is assumed that she had died sometime before October 1781. John Handley bought two slaves, a negro male named Dick, age 9, and a female named Pheby, age 13, on August 5, 1785, from William Allen for 100 pounds. A notation on the deed said, "Delivered to William Handley 8-9-1793. By that time, Dick would have been 17 and Pheby would have been 21. John Handley might have had them both working for him until they were transferred to William Handley, or perhaps John died sometime before August 9, 1793. No will was recorded for John Handley I, nor any record of an estate sale was found, however John would have had little left to be distributed by the time he died. >From the records found, these children have been established as belonging to John and Grizel Handley: 1. John Handley (II) was born about 1720. A deed dated August 17, 1779, has Margaret as the wife of John (II), when they sold 150 acres of the 300 acres they had bought from Joseph Kennedy to "John Handley Jr" (III). The land was described as being where Senior lives in the Beverly Manor. On April 7, 1789, John Jr (III) and his wife Sarah sold the 150 acres.The last mention in official records of John II was on a deed of sale dated April 28, 1800. It appears that the estate settled in 1810 was the estate of John (II). We do known that John (III), who was married to Sarah Campbell, was the son of John and Margaret and the grandson of John and Grizel. As far as we know John and Margaret had two sons;