Well, Maynard, from the mention of "Powell's Creek" it certainly sounds likely that it's the same mill mentioned in July, but I know that there are lots of duplicate creek names in VA. And from the portion of the quote that Michael Tutor found earlier in the Brown book (included in my July 11th message, copied below), referring to Peter Poythress having bought it from Hardyman, it also sounds likely. I just wish the Brown book's quotation had actually included the year Peter got it from Hardyman. Without further resources at my disposal, it looks to me like you've found the right record to go with that quote from the Brown book. It would cinch it, if you have any resource at hand that would show whether or not that intersection I described July 11th (copied below) at/near Garysville, VA was *in* PG Co, and *in* Martin's Brandon Parish at the time of the 4 Oct 1721 sale record you found. Right now I'm in a hotel room, far from my info about various county boundaries at various times, and about various parishes & their locations. Cheers, BPN > 7/11/2005 BPN wrote: Aha, right after sending off my below message just now, I coaxed MapQuest into showing the creeks of the area of Garysville. Indeed Powell's Creek runs right there (about 0.1 to 0.2 mile from the intersection mentioned below). > > 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..."