Elaine, I think this fellow should not be confused with Sheriff Thomas James P. of Burke Co. who dies 1800. This James (more correctly James P. Poythress) is a man I have chased all over the map, You correctly observe that he pops up all over the place. He comes along, roughly a contemporary of Meredith Poythress, Jr. and the first time we see him all over the books he is buying property in Screven 1811-15 and then selling property in Screven County, about 1820-27. Later we learn he is selling Screven property preparatory to a move to Gadsden County, FL where he patents land (1828) and fathers at least one son John by a Mary Dolan. We do know from two of the Screven deeds that James P. Poythress had a wife named "Mary" in Georgia and presumably she goes to FL with him. After arriving in FL James P. Poythress sells 250 acres of land in Screven to William T. Poythress for $5. This would be considered a "nominal" transaction and would suggest kinship. The problem is we don't know who William T. Poythress is either. Son John for some reason goes to LA to enlist in CSA service, returns to FL after the war. It's driving the Dolans more crazy than we because he is a key to the Dolan line. Our line of inquiry is to simply find out who he is.....and I have not gotten to first base and don't know enough to know if he is a "key" or not. I have not been remotely sucessful in hooking JPP to Meredith Poythress Sr. or Jr. It is not at all likely for him to be in same family group of Sr., even less likely to be in family group with Jr. I hope someone may produce James P. Poythress' connection one day. I have all these deeds on my hard drive and will be happy to e-mail them to you if you would like to have them. Maynard

Maynard, I believe there is a little clarification which needs to be made concerning the wife of James P. Poythress, our Gadsden Co., FL man. He had a son named John P., who married Mary Ann Dolan in 1866. Our family's Poythress record book which was originally maintained by John P. Poythress does not mention the names of his parents. We don't know for certain, but we believe that John P. is James P.'s son. If you are referring to me & my family being driven crazy, we're the Poythress (Grands, Gr Grands, etc. of John P. & Mary Poythress) line rather than the direct Dolan line. Hopefully one day we'll get these Gadsden Co. men back into the Va/Ga Poythress family lines from which I believe they came. Thanks to all of you for any connections you find about us Gadsden Co., FL cousins. Linda [email protected] wrote: > Elaine, I think this fellow should not be confused with Sheriff Thomas James > P. of Burke Co. who dies 1800. > > This James (more correctly James P. Poythress) is a man I have chased all > over the map, You correctly observe that he pops up all over the place. He > comes along, roughly a contemporary of Meredith Poythress, Jr. and the first > time we see him all over the books he is buying property in Screven 1811-15 > and then selling property in Screven County, about 1820-27. Later we learn > he is selling Screven property preparatory to a move to Gadsden County, FL > where he patents land (1828) and fathers at least one son John by a Mary > Dolan. We do know from two of the Screven deeds that James P. Poythress had > a wife named "Mary" in Georgia and presumably she goes to FL with him. > > After arriving in FL James P. Poythress sells 250 acres of land in Screven to > William T. Poythress for $5. This would be considered a "nominal" > transaction and would suggest kinship. The problem is we don't know who > William T. Poythress is either. > > Son John for some reason goes to LA to enlist in CSA service, returns to FL > after the war. It's driving the Dolans more crazy than we because he is a > key to the Dolan line. Our line of inquiry is to simply find out who he > is.....and I have not gotten to first base and don't know enough to know if > he is a "key" or not. > > I have not been remotely sucessful in hooking JPP to Meredith Poythress Sr. > or Jr. > It is not at all likely for him to be in same family group of Sr., even less > likely to be in family group with Jr. > > I hope someone may produce James P. Poythress' connection one day. I have > all these deeds on my hard drive and will be happy to e-mail them to you if > you would like to have them. > > Maynard > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > The Poythress Genealogy List is hosted by RootsWeb. If you'd like to learn more about Rootsweb please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/