Maynard & Bruce, & all (& with a welcome back to Al Tims, by the way), Per earlier messages this year, allow me to refresh your memory that Craig has already copied in late March some of the Mecklenburg Co cases & I've begun working on transcribing them, though granted not with the speed that any of us would wish. I have been away on trips & completely unavailable for working on genealogy much of this summer, & then to add insult, I had a major computer failure several weeks ago. The ones that Craig looked for may or may not be *all* of the same ones that you listed in your message of 7/17 Maynard (I can't tell since your message spaced-out so strangely that I cannot easity read it), but they are the ones that Lyn P Baird & I mentioned in our messages of 2/20/01 (pertinent portions listing them copied below). Hope to get back to the transcribing very soon. Barbara Poythress Neal = = = = = First, copied from my 2/20/01 message to the List; below that is Lyn P Baird's message of earlier that day. I have none of the indicated documents & would love to have copies of all of them. Craig, if you can indeed obtain photocopies while you are at LVA for the March 19th meeting, I would be happy to reimburse you for the costs of obtaining them (unless you wish to keep said copies, yourself) & then I'll be glad to abstract/transcribe them for us all. I can also offer the following observations after comparing the names & time periods, to notes re Mecklenburg Co Deed Indexes and to Wills that we have seen previously: 1) re Index Number 1808-008 re Plaintiffs Joshua Smith etc & Defendants Hutchins Ferrell, which includes Poythress in the list of surnames: I did not find the names Smith, Hutchins, or Ferrell in any items that had "Poythress" (& variant spellings) in the Deed Indexes. The Hutchins name seems very familiar to me & I cannot place why. Also I am interested to see what tie-in the Smith name brings, since the late Betty Lawrence (of Meridian, Mississippi) had mentioned some Smith connection in her Poythress stuff years ago. 2) re Index Number 1820-012 re Plaintiff Lewis Poythress & Defendants Edward Giles, Admr Etc, which includes Potress and Poythress in the list of surnames along with Bassey, Giles, & Nance. In the Deed Indexes, I don't see these various other names associated with any Poythress items. However, we have previously seen the Mecklenburg Will signed on 10 March 1818 by Edward Giles, which I will re-post tonight as an email. This chancery suit might have been filed as a result of part of that Will's provisions, by Lewis Poythress against the Administrator of Edward Giles estate. 3) re Index Number 1858-015 CC re Plaintiffs Jones Etc & Defendants Admr of Harwell Etc, which includes surnames Bracey, Childress, Griffin, Harwell, Jones, King, Pennington, Poythress, Puryear, Smith, & Wall: In the Deed Indexes, I see that in June of 1836 there was a Mecklenburg Deed between Grantors Grief Harwell etal and Grantee Lewis Poythress, listed as being in Deed Book 16, beginning on p.230. This chancery suit might have been filed as a result of something about that transaction. 4) re Index Number 1867-027 CC re Plaintiffs Everett King & Defendants Mansfield R. Seymour Etc, which includes surnames Boyd, King, Poythress, & Seymour: In the Deed Indexes, I don't see these various other names associated with any Poythress items. I note, however, that the King name here may be related to the King name in #3 above, and may furnish further info from the same earlier tie-in. 5) re Index Number 1880-030 CC re Plaintiffs William L Portress/Poythress & Defendants Exr of Nancy Thomas, which includes numerous surnames including Boyd & Thomas. In the Deed Indexes, I don't see these various other names associated with any Poythress items. I note, however, that the Boyd name here may be related to the Boyd name in #4 above, and may furnish further info from the same earlier tie-in, as well as being interesting due to Lyn's earlier info re Nancy Thomas & Lucy Thomas Poythress. 6) re Index Number 1889-007 CC re Plaintiffs R P Cleaton & Defendants Harriet Thomas Etc, which includes surnames Cleaton, Poythress, Rainey, & Thomas: In the Deed Indexes, I see that in 1797 there was a Mecklenburg Deed between Grantor John Cleaton & Grantee Lewis Poythress (DB 10, p.62) and a 1799 Dower Release between Grantor Martha Cleaton & Grantee Lewis Poythress (DB10, p.96). And I note that, more likely, the Thomas name here may be related to the Thomas name in #5 & #6 above, and may furnish further info from the same earlier tie-ins. All of these should assist us in our research. Thanks, Lyn, for posting the chancery index Poythress entries that you found. Barbara Poythress Neal = = = = = = Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:12:51 -0500 Subject: Poythress in Mecklenburg Va. Chancery Index From: Lyn Baird <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Thanks to the alert from Maynard Poythress, I visited the new chancery court index on the Library of Virginia site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us/state/records/chancery/index.htm. Below are the responses I found for surname Poythress / Portress / Potress in Mecklenburg County. To date Mecklenburg is the only published county of the "southeastern piedmont" group. Other counties in this group include Prince George, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg and Brunswick. 1) Locality MECKLENBURG CO Index Number 1808-008 Plat? NO LVA Reel Number - Not Filmed Local Reel Number - Not Filmed Image Number - Plaintiffs P1: JOSHUA SMITH ETC Defendants D1: HUTCHINS FERRELL Surnames- COLLIER FERRELL FOX HOLMES LARK POYTHRESS SMITH TAYLOR WRIGHT Wills - NONE Original Local Case Number - NONE 2) Locality MECKLENBURG CO Index Number 1820-012 Plat? NO LVA Reel Number - Not Filmed Local Reel Number - Not Filmed Image Number - Plaintiffs P1: LEWIS POYTHRESS Defendants D1: EDWARD GILES ADMR ETC Surnames - BASSEY GILES NANCE POTRESS POYTHRESS Wills - NONE Original Local Case Number - NONE [My note: This Lewis Poythress is likely the widower of Elizabeth Giles, deceased, daughter of Edward Giles.] 3) Locality MECKLENBURG CO Index Number 1858-015 CC Plat? NO LVA Reel Number - Not Filmed Local Reel Number - Not Filmed Image Number - Plaintiffs P1: JONES ETC Defendants D1: ADMR OF HARWELL ETC Surnames - BRACEY CHILDRESS GRIFFIN HARWELL JONES KING PENNINGTON POYTHRESS PURYEAR SMITH WALL Wills - NONE Original Local Case Number - NONE 4) Locality MECKLENBURG CO Index Number 1867-027 CC Plat? NO LVA Reel Number - Not Filmed Local Reel Number - Not Filmed Image Number - Plaintiffs P1: EVERETT KING Defendants D1: MANSFIELD R SEYMOUR ETC Surnames - BOYD KING POYTHRESS SEYMOUR Wills - NONE Original Local Case Number - NONE 5) Locality MECKLENBURG CO Index Number 1880-030 CC Plat? NO LVA Reel Number - Not Filmed Local Reel Number - Not Filmed Image Number - Plaintiffs P1: WILLIAM L PORTRESS (WILLIAM L POYTHRESS) Defendants D1: EXR OF NANCY THOMAS Surnames - ATKINS BOYD BURTON GREGG LEE LOVE PORTRESS POYTHRESS RIGGAN THOMAS THROWER Wills - NONE Original Local Case Number - NONE [My note: This William L. Poythress is likely the grandson of Nancy Thomas through her daughter, Lucy Thomas Poythress, and is likely the grandson of Lewis Poythress.] 6) Locality MECKLENBURG CO Index Number 1889-007 CC Plat? NO LVA Reel Number - Not Filmed Local Reel Number - Not Filmed Image Number - Plaintiffs P1: R P CLEATON Defendants D1: HARRIET THOMAS ETC Surnames - CLEATON POYTHRESS RAINEY THOMAS Wills - NONE Original Local Case Number - 24