The 4,000 acres which William Poythress received in Warrant Number 1878 (warrant dated Nov 8, 1783) for his 3 years of Revolutionary War service in the Virginia Continental Line as a Captain Lieutenant, were located as follows in the microfilm of "Old Kentucky Grants, Volume 7" which is on film #272,821 of the Family History Library. I was led to this volume of the Old Kentucky Grants thanks to the 1971 reprint of the 1925 book by Willard Rouse Jillson, "The Kentucky Land Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky 1782-1924." The title page of the book indicates that Jillson was State Geologist of Kentucky and Chairman of the Kentucky State Park Commission; Member of the American Historical Association, Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Kentucky State Historical Society, and The Filson Club. Note: This land was partially identified in a recent message about this William Poythress, in the portion of the message dealing with the 1833 Petition to the U.S. Congress by William's heirs for pay for his Revolutionary service. See the last eight paragraphs of Michael Tutor's 14 January 2006 message to this List, captioned "Lieutenant William Poythress, of Flowerdew Hundred, Continental Army Officer, son of Joshua Poythress II, 5th Generation." From that message we see that the Will of this William Poythress, of Martin's Brandon Parish, in Prince George County, VA was dated September 2, 1794, and proved September 11, 1795. Our great List member, Michael Tutor, identified this William Poythress' wife as Mary Gilliam. Michael further said that he was born about 1753 & died October 15, 1794, and was buried October 18, 1794, in Dinwiddie County - cemetery location not specified in that message. I offer a couple of correcting notes. I think there were either a couple of typographical errors, or earlier transcription errors in the source Michael consulted, both of which were in the first line of a paragraph near the end of Michael's message, in the paragraph that begins with "No. 924, 1,000 acres. Survey for William Poythress, 1,000 acres of an part of a Military Warrant No. 1678, on Reaflers Creek, a branch of Green River..." Corrections: (1) That Military Warrant Number should be 1878 (and it is accurately mentioned as Warrant Number 1878 in the last line of that same paragraph). (2) The Creek name, as transcribed by Jillson, was Renfrow Creek. Jillson's book lists the names of the individuals to whom the surveyed land was granted; therefore it only lists 3,000 of his 4,000 acres under the name of William Poythress. When searching the above-mentioned film, I lucked into finding William Poythress' remaining 1,000 acres in two entries granting land (850 acres and 150 acres) to "Burwell Jackson assignee of William Poythress." Jillson had just listed those two grants of land under Burwell Jackson's name, along with other land Burwell Jackson was granted. As you'll see below, both of these "Burwell Jackson assignee of William Poythress" grants specified William Poythress' Warrant Number 1878. Black's Law Dictionary defines "assignee" as "a person to whom an assignment is made; grantee." Black's further notes that in Old Law, an assignee is "A person deputed or appointed by another to do any act, or perform any business." Since both the grants in which Burwell Jackson was listed as assignee of William Poythress, show the Kentucky Governor was granting the land to Burwell Jackson and his heirs forever, I take it that William must have sold his right to that 1,000 acres, rather than William having just sent Burwell Jackson instructions & legal power to get the grants for William himself. I am listing the grants here chronologically by the dates of the surveys, rather than in the chronological order of the grants themselves (which is in accordance with the page-number order from the Old Kentucky Grant book), since I learned more about William & his Kentucky land by paying attention to the survey dates when William (& his heirs & his assignee Jackson) had the land surveyed, and how those survey dates relate to the grant dates: - the first 1,000-acre portion was surveyed 8 yrs before William died; - the next 1,000 acres were surveyed in two parts (850 acres & 150 acres, granted to Burwell Jackson assignee for William) about 18 months before William died (and apparently after William had sold the land to Jackson); - the last two 1,000-acre portions of William Poythress' Warrant Number 1878 were (I was surprised to learn) not even surveyed until 18 months *after* William died. I'll put my transcriptions of the five entries from Old Kentucky Grant Book 7 (which entries give the legal description locations of the land), in a separate message I'll send after sending this message. = = Recap = = The 5 parcels of Kentucky land composing William Poythress' Warrant Number 1878, for 4,000 acres, were: 1. Surveyed 23 Feb 1785; 1,000 acres; granted to William Poythress; granted 16 July 1797; recorded in Old Kentucky Grant Book 7, p.306. 2. Surveyed 29 March 1792: 850 acres; granted to Burwell Jackson assignee of William Poythress; granted 16 July 1797; recorded in Old Kentucky Grant Book 7, p.307. 3. Surveyed 18 April 1792; 150 acres; granted to Burwell Jackson assignee of William Poythress; granted 16 July 1797; recorded in Old Kentucky Grant Book 7, p.305. 4. Surveyed 8 April 1796; 1,000 acres; granted to William Poythress; granted 19 Dec 1796; recorded in Old Kentucky Grant Book 7, p.14. 5. Surveyed 9 April 1796; 1,000 acres; granted to William Poythress; granted 19 Dec 1796; recorded in Old Kentucky Grant Book 7, p.15.