The request of "I must have missed it. Could you please repost the will? Thank you." from Sallymell reminds me to mention to everyone on the List that you can check for any messages you've missed in the List's Archives. There are two places to check, where ALL the lists' messages are archived: (1) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl [Note: the ending of that is "PL" as in the word "place" - not a number] After you get to that page, you type into the box the name of whatever List you are wanting to search; in this case you would type "Poythress" but you can use that same address to search on any name you can think of & if that family name has an email list, you can read their archived messages, too. (2) you can also check the Threaded List Archives, at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ [and again put in Poythress to check the messages of our List] = = = = In the January 1972, Vol. X, Issue No.1, "Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly" (long out of print) is an article (pp. 3-13) entitled "Unrecorded Wills of Dinwiddie County" which was "contributed by Mrs. E.B. Short, Dinwiddie, Virginia 23841." The article has no introductory notes, and no notes following the transcribed wills. Presumably these unrecorded wills were found by Mrs. Short at the Dinwiddie County, VA Courthouse. The following transcription is on the bottom of p.4 of the above-mentioned article (with spelling, capitalization, sentence structure & punctuation as shown in the article): MARY POYTHRESS I Mary Poythress of the County of Dinwiddie being very sick and weak but in perfect mind and memory thanks be to God; and calling to mind that all must die and return to dust from whence they came, so make and ordain this my last will and Testament - I do give, devise and bequeath to my Loving Daughter Tabitha Poythress and her heirs forever, whatever falls or belongs to me by Law, of my Dec'd husband Edward Poythress' estate. I do choose and appoint William FitzGarrett and my [___]ter Tabitha Poythress Executors of this my last will and Testament. Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offered my seal this 21st day of July 1772. Mary [her mark] Poythress Signed, sealed published and Declared in presence of John Cryer Thos. Anderson Thomas Rogers Elizabeth Poythress ----------------------- Internet Header -------------------------------- Sender: [email protected] Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by sphmgaad.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.9) with ESMTP id RAA07879; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:03:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f28M2fe30353; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:02:41 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:02:41 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Thu Mar 8 15:02:24 2001 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:02:05 -0500 From: Charles Neal <[email protected]> Subject: Mary Poythress, Dinwiddie Co unrec will 1772 Sender: Charles Neal <[email protected]> Old-To: "A, POYTHRESS List" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists5.rootsweb.com id f28M2Ob29712 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/3248 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] <