I don't know whether it would be the same mill or not, but the location sounds like it could be. First I looked on MapQuest to see where Garysville is located. It is at the intersection of the Old Stage Road and James River Drive (aka state/county? Route 10 -- the road from Hopewell toward Surry). MapQuest doesn't show Powell's Creek, so if one of you has some source that shows Powell's Creek, perhaps we can tell if this is the same mill. I found the following in our Poythress-List Message Archives, one of Michael Tutor's wonderful "Poythress Chronicles" messages, from 17 Jan 2004: In Michael's section regarding "Peter Poythress (c. 1684-), son of John Poythress (c. 1639-1712)" with the info coming from "A Virginia Heritage" by Eleanor Brown Merrill. Michael noted that this book was privately printed in 1968 and is in The National Genealogical Society Library. CS71.B88 1968 C.1 6417. Michael abstracted info from pages 51 and 52, ending with the following paragraph: "From the above we gather that Peter Poythress married Mrs. Ann Baker; they owned a water mill on Powell's Creek sold to them by John Hardyman, and had one daughter, Anne, who married Richard Bland of "Jordans;" the grandson of John Bland who in 1657 had acquired this tract of land from the first Benjamin Harrison's widow. A daughter, Christian Poythress, married John Fitzgerald and their daughter, Elizabeth, married Archibald Robertson; whence came the dual relationship of Susannah Peachy Poythress, whose aunt, Mrs. Richard Eppes of Appomattox Manor, is referred to later..." 7/10/2005 John M. Poythress wrote: > Well, we have (or had) ourselves a street in Hopewell and a creek in > King > George County. Anybody care to try for a grist mill in Garyville? > We have any live members who poke about in the Petersburg > library? <g> > > Maynard > > HScherer wrote: > Hello, List---I was researching the William Gary > family in Prince George Co, VA ., in 1713. He lived > in a small town of Garysville, "located a short > distance from Hopewell, some eleven miles east of > Petersburg, on the old stage road between Richmond > and Norfolk, VA It has a large grist mill, so > essential to the early settlers. The old mill was > called 'Poythess Mill', 'Bland Mill' and finally > 'Cocke Mill', probably named for subsequent owners." > I don't remember reading about a Poythress owning a > grist mill in Garysville. Thought you'd like this > tidbit. > Harriet

That's about six miles from the home of the "other" Peter Poythress of Branchester, where there was apparently another mill. Just to avoid confusion, the daughter, Christian, mentioned in the quote below, was the sister of Peter of Flowerdew Hundred, and daughter of John P. The daughter, Ann who married Richard Bland, was the sole heir. Perhaps that's how the mill's name changed from Poythress' Mill to Bland's Mill. There were certainly plenty of Cocke's in the area who could have obtained the mill through marriage or purchase. Ted Kingsbury -----Original Message----- From: Barbara P. Neal [mailto:bp_neal@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:30 AM To: POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Poythress Mill I don't know whether it would be the same mill or not, but the location sounds like it could be. First I looked on MapQuest to see where Garysville is located. It is at the intersection of the Old Stage Road and James River Drive (aka state/county? Route 10 -- the road from Hopewell toward Surry). MapQuest doesn't show Powell's Creek, so if one of you has some source that shows Powell's Creek, perhaps we can tell if this is the same mill. I found the following in our Poythress-List Message Archives, one of Michael Tutor's wonderful "Poythress Chronicles" messages, from 17 Jan 2004: In Michael's section regarding "Peter Poythress (c. 1684-), son of John Poythress (c. 1639-1712)" with the info coming from "A Virginia Heritage" by Eleanor Brown Merrill. Michael noted that this book was privately printed in 1968 and is in The National Genealogical Society Library. CS71.B88 1968 C.1 6417. Michael abstracted info from pages 51 and 52, ending with the following paragraph: "From the above we gather that Peter Poythress married Mrs. Ann Baker; they owned a water mill on Powell's Creek sold to them by John Hardyman, and had one daughter, Anne, who married Richard Bland of "Jordans;" the grandson of John Bland who in 1657 had acquired this tract of land from the first Benjamin Harrison's widow. A daughter, Christian Poythress, married John Fitzgerald and their daughter, Elizabeth, married Archibald Robertson; whence came the dual relationship of Susannah Peachy Poythress, whose aunt, Mrs. Richard Eppes of Appomattox Manor, is referred to later..." 7/10/2005 John M. Poythress wrote: > Well, we have (or had) ourselves a street in Hopewell and a creek in > King George County. Anybody care to try for a grist mill in Garyville? > We have any live members who poke about in the Petersburg library? <g> > > Maynard > > HScherer wrote: > Hello, List---I was researching the William Gary family in Prince > George Co, VA ., in 1713. He lived in a small town of Garysville, > "located a short distance from Hopewell, some eleven miles east of > Petersburg, on the old stage road between Richmond and Norfolk, VA It > has a large grist mill, so essential to the early settlers. The old > mill was called 'Poythess Mill', 'Bland Mill' and finally 'Cocke > Mill', probably named for subsequent owners." > I don't remember reading about a Poythress owning a grist mill in > Garysville. Thought you'd like this tidbit. > Harriet ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== Poythress Genealogy Research Web www.poythress.net