I would be very interested in any information on this family. I have other roots from Tazewell from the opposite side of my family research. Robert Barnard married Rachel Chaffer and they lived in Tazewell. Rachel's father was Abraham Chaffer who owned a lot of farming land in the Deer Creek area. I was very surprised to learn of the Scully's also being in Tazewell when I started researching that branch of the family. Small world! Hazel On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:00:09 EDT Teedirk@aol.com writes: > Hazel, From a memo dated 15 Feb 2000 in my files I have reference to > a book: > > "Landlord William Scully" by Homer E. Socolofsky, Lawrence, KS, The > Regents > Press of Kansas, 1979 > > I have not read the book but have been interested in the Scully > estates as > some of my somewhat distant kinfolk have farmed said land for > generations. I > seem to recall from years ago my Dad relating that the land was > purchased by > the Scully Estate for a pound or so of tobacco per acre and then > leased out > (maybe for 100 years)? with the buildings belonging to the farmers, > the land > remaining in the estate. Rules were made as to crops rotated and > the like. > Lands in the estates were in Logan County, IL, Nuckolls County, NB, > Marions > County, KA, Gage County, NB. Hope this helps, Tom Dirksen > > > ==== ILTAZEWE Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.