In the interest of having Maynard's voluminous work available to us in our Poythress-List Archives, I am about to send to the List in pure "text" form all seven of the documents (each one as a separate, searchable-in-the-Archives, message) which he earlier today made available to us as Word files: 1) PG Court Orders 1714-20 2) PG Court Minute Book 1737-1740 3) PG Misc. Court Records 4) PG Surveys as Proxies for Census 1720-26 5) PG Wills and Deeds 1759-1760 6) PG Wills and Deeds 1787-1792 7) PG Wills, Deeds and Settlements 1713-1728 Thanks again, Maynard, for all your hard work!! Maynard's comments about the seven files are repeated below, from his earlier message that was captioned as above. Barbara (BPN) = = = ... are seven record files comprising the whole of Poythress and some related families' information at the Clayton Genealogical Library in Houston. Sadly, in comparing this material to the indexes of the Library of Virginia and indexes of the principle abstractor of many Prince George records (Benjamin Weisiger), there are not many more legal documents available as the Prince George courthouse was destroyed about 1864-5. The... titles... are: 1) PG Court Orders 1714-20 2) PG Court Minute Book 1737-1740 3) PG Misc. Court Records 4) PG Surveys as Proxies for Census 1720-26 5) PG Wills and Deeds 1759-1760 6) PG Wills and Deeds 1787-1792 7) PG Wills, Deeds and Settlements 1713-1728 Comments on the material: 1) Prefacing notes for each record group are intended to clarify why I arranged the material as I did. Some subjects are transcribed and some abstracted; some books are sequenced by dates and some by page number. The notes will explain why. 2) Dates and "Book" page numbers are often a contradiction, especially in the 1730's when the new year started in March. While I may or may not have let that effect the sequencing of documents listed, in all cases I have used the actual date and/or page number on the original document. Anticipate that conflicting dates, page numbers, etc. will present frustrating contradictions. 3) I attempted to render spellings as shown in the document. Spelling for a lot of those court clerks appears to have been a casual matter. Subjective spellings were characteristic of the times. 4) Even if you already have some of these documents by the same title, please substitute the new material for your old file. Numerous clarifications and revisions are included. In anticipation of future corrections, additions, etc. by any or all of us I have indicated "revision dates" in the top right at the beginning of each record set. 5) With the exception of a few instances where an acknowledged individual is stated to have given consent to use a pre-existing transcription or an abstract, this material is all "original" and taken from microfilm. There are no copyright implications from others and none claimed by me. You may feel free to copy this material in whole or in part and use in any way you choose. 6) In all instances, corrections, additions, deletions, etc. will be welcomed. Simply send it to me and I will make the correction and send revised documents to the list. I hope this material will be helpful to all of you. Maynard