I think we have, as a practical matter, eliminated Martha Ann Elizabeth Poythress Dixon Odum (daughter of Thomas Poythress) as a "member" of this lottery group (at the time she would have been 29 years old and married.....hardly an "orphan"). Plus she was the youngest of the siblings so there would be no other "qualifiers". Now I'm grasping at straws: we know there was a Thomas Poythress, Jr. in Burke County at the time. I think he signed one petition with his father IN Burke County and it is clearly Thomas Poythress, Jr. b. VA. We never hear from him again. Just to put a theory out there to poke about with, perhaps Thomas Jr. died an early death and HIS orphans became some of those otherwise unidentified "orphaned" Poythresses in Burke County's 1805 Ga. Land Lottery. I'm looking at Craig's list of Chancery Court material and see Thomas M. Poytress m. Lucy Thomas. I have two problems with this candidate. First, he/she spells the name without the "h" and all the others of our crowd used the conventional spelling. Second, somewhere back in my memory bank it says that Lewis had a son named Thomas M. Comments? Maynard