This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: VivianCates50 Surnames: Powell Buckner Toole Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.powell/7141/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am starting a new thread instead of adding to the old one of Nathaniel Powell and Powells of Barnwell District/County, South Carolina. Barnwell District/County, South Carolina has a full set of records beginning about 1800 when the county was formed. For a few years prior to 1800 the area was called Winton (sp?. I know this from years of researching my Tooles in that area. For a few years in the 1700's they were called districts, then changed to counties, then back to districts, and then after the Civil War,they are now called counties. What records any Powells left there will have to be determined by researching there. Be sure to check into the Barnwell message boards and e-mail list for Powells. It has not been very active lately. I don't remember if it is "gatewayed" to the message board. Some other counties in the area are and some are not. I forget which is which. I am on the Powell list because I have a William Powell married to an Amy(?)_?_ before c. 1715 when the death of a child was recorded in the St. Paul's Parish Vestry of Stafford County, Virginia. Not to be confused with St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia. One of their surviving children, Amy Powell, married Anthony Buckner Thomas or just Anthony Buckner, about 1755. He died as Anthony Buckner in Halifax County, Virginia, with a will in 1780. Need parents for this William Powell. The Upper Three Runs area where the Tooles and other allied families lived in Barnwell County was taken into the Savannah River Atomic Energy Project in the early 1950's. Vivian Toole Cates, alto, Texas 75925 1-936-858-3801 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.