Poythress, Agnes Marriages "On Saturday last [20 Sep 1788] Roger Atkinson, Jun. Esq. to Miss Agnes Poythress of Prince George, sixth daughter of the late Peter Poythress." Source: Virginia Independent Chronicle 24 Sep 1788 Virginia Historical Records

Thanks for that information about Agnes Poythress, Maynard. Agnes Poythress was the grandmother of one of the many characters among the descendants of Francis and Mary Poythress: Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919). Roger had a lot of Poythress genes. Agnes's daughter Lucy Atkinson was the first of three wives of Theoderick Bland Pryor, her second cousin. Theoderick Bland Pryor, a colorful Presbyterian minister in Petersburg, was also a Poythress descendent. Pryor's second wife was also a Poythress descendent, as was his third. Pryor gave up the Anglican church and a law career to join the ministry. Roger Atkinson Pryor who had a chance to fire the first shot in the civil war, but he turned it down. Pryor happened to be at Fort Sumter on that fateful day in April 1961 as an aide to General Beauregard. Pryor had beam also a fire-eater editor of a Virginia newspaper. He was also a junior Congressman, who thought war was inevitable. But presumably because Virginia had not seceded yet, Pryor let someone else take the first shot. But being somewhat impetuous, while assisting in the negotiations to end the fighting at Fort Sumter a few days later, Pryor grabbed a bottle of potassium iodine on the conference table he mistook for water and swigged it down. He had to have his stomach pumped. Roger Pryor was later a member of the Confederate Congress. He was later promoted to Colonel then General in the Confederate Army but resigned when he didn't get the assignment he wanted. He then enlisted in the Calvary. He was arrested by the North for spying and was spared from hanging when President Lincoln intervened. After the war, Pryor became a lawyer in New York state and later became a justice of that state's Supreme Court. Around that time, he wrote a treatise on the problems with the electoral college system in electing a President. Diana