I am new to the list. I am a descendant of Samuel Harvey of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, who died in 1822 (Team 13 of the Harvey Discussion List Project). I have sent several additions and corrections to the list coordinator. This post is to throw out some clues I have found to the identity of the father of Samuel and his sisters and possible brother John. When Samuel Harvey died in 1822, the commissioners sold two tracts, one of 99 acres to his son John Harvey, and the other of 219 acres to his son Richard Harvey, with 127 acres subject to the dower rights of Alsey Harvey (Alice Burnett Harvey, Samuel's wife). The deeds provide a metes and bounds description. See 25 Pittsylvania County Deed Book 135-36. By matching the legal descriptions, we can tell that the first tract is most of the land surveyed for Thomas Boaz in 1779 on the Grassy Fork of Stewarts Creek, where Wordens Chapel is today at the intersection of 882 and 703. Forty-six acres of this tract was deeded to John's son Samuel M. Harvey in 1851 and seem to have remained in that family at least until it was partitioned in 1914. The larger tract came out of the 262 acre tract surveyed for John Harvey in 1777. This is west of the cross roads at Vance (861 and 844). This appears to have been the home tract due to the dower right. The metes and bounds match those of the 1822 commissioners' sale to Richard Harvey around three sides of the tract. I am not sure what happened to it after Richard died about 1833. Presumably it remained subject to the dower interst until Alcy died in 1856. I think the records will ultimately show that Robert Cullom only had an interest in the land by marriage to the widow of John Harvey, and left it to her children in his will. Samuel received 21 acres of land in 1799 according to the land tax book. This may tell us when Elizabeth died and the dower interest was distributed to the children. Further research in the land tax records may also identify the children of Elizabeth Harvey Cullom. These records are valuable because they give us what may be the name of the father of the Harvey children named in the Cullom will. I will send another post with a list of land entry records int he name of John Harvey in the general area. Bob Hodges