Elaine...."in form paupens status" (Latin) means that a poor person is relieved of the fees and costs of a legal action because of inability to pay. "Ejectmts agt Col. Bland" would be (I suppose) ejectments against Col. Bland but until it's seen in context one doesn't know what the "ejectments" are, or, for that matter, much of anything about the matter. Only "William & Mary" is not a citation one can do much with. Most of this stuff came out of Wm & Mary but until 1935 it was called "Va. Historical Mag." and after 1935 it's called "Wm & Mary Quarterly." I found the years 1899-1900 in vol. 7 (VA Historical Mag.) and nothing of the diary you mention (which is not to say it's not there.....Mr Swem (later) could have missed the short Poythress reference. I would suggest that picking random bits and pieces out of any of these publications is only going to be confusing and that there is a way to sequentially and logically follow all of this early Va. published material and simultaneously get yourself into a lot of marvelous 8 and 10 page "studies" of various Poythress individuals that were printed in these various Va. publications beginning many years ago. The librarian at Wm & Mary for many, many years was a man named Gregg Swem (now deceased) who complied what is commonly referred to in the genealogy biz as "the Swem Index". It can be found in virtually any major library with a decent genealogy section. And, as I hope you have found, a major library with a genealogy section usually means that there will be a decent amount of Virginia material (as the saying goes: in the beginning Virginia was all there was). What Mr. Swem did was to take all of the major "journals" (VA. Mag. of History, Wm & Mary Quarterly, Henings Statutes of Va., etc. etc. and "name index" the entire shooting match by SURNAME. Page 486 of his index contains easily a couple of hundred Poythresses coded by given name, code for the name of the publication, vol. #, and page number. If you get a copy of Mr. Swem's book and read the intro it will all come pretty clear. And it's quite likely that all of the series' which Mr. Swem quotes will be in a library with a genealogy section. One then takes the index, finds the appropriate vol. and pages cited and just photocopies the articles and references. It should take a few days of library work at the end of which time you'll have just about every "scholarly" article or referance to Poythress (and maybe there are some not so scholarly). You'll have about 300 priceless pages when you are done. I'm sorry to answer a short question with such a windy answer but that's the story. Best, Maynard