Some has been digitized and posted. Go to: http://www.lib.byu.edu/ Choose: Find Other Materials Electronic Choose the tab "Text Collections" Choose: Family History Archives Following is the only Poythress entry of interest to me and I included the entire jury list as all the usual suspects are there: 11 Jan 1720 Prince George County Records, 1733-1790, p. 208 Grand Jury empanelled consisting of William Batte, William Gibbs, Thomas Leath, Nicholas Hatch, Thomas Poythress, John Brockwell, John Chamless, Edward Woodleif, John Cureton, William Parsons, William Crawley, Daniel Sturdivant, Lewis Epes, John Epes, William Mattox, Benjamin Simmons, Samuel Lee, John Burge, Tillman Patteson, Reuben Baird, John Hardaway, Roger Taylor and James Pittillo. Jury made the following presentments: Elizabeth Jones in Parish of Brandon for having a bastard child. William Floyd, a common swearer. William Bleighton, for not going to church. William Irby, for same. etc. etc. Signed: William Batte, Foreman All of above summoned to next court. Maynard

Maynard, thanks so much for making us aware of the digitizing of the Family History Archives going on. Right now, I'm not where I can check out the BYU website you mentioned, to double-check that neat Grand Jury list you sent to the List the other day, but I'm just wondering: Does that group of "Prince George County Records, 1733-1790" really contain over 200 pages of entries that occurred before January of 1720? If so, wow, browsing thru that group could yield some really early info. (Or maybe there's a typo in either the Grand Jury date, or in the dates of the record group?) I'd welcome any further enlightenment or clarification, since I'm trying to figure out the best Thomas Poythress for this to have been. Thanks, Barbara (Bpn) 11/16/2005 John M. Poythress wrote: <snip> ... > Following is the only Poythress entry of interest to me and I included > the entire jury list as all the usual suspects are there: > 11 Jan 1720 > Prince George County Records, 1733-1790, p. 208 > ...

Maynard, I've now gotten to an internet connection, but I cannot locate the record you found, so still cannot confirm whether the Grand Jury date was truly 1720, in a batch of records from 1733-1790. I'm not even confident I've gotten to the right place, since by searching for Poythress in the full text, my search results listed 37 items (several are different pages from the same sources), and since I couldn't get to it the same way you outlined below. All the search results are various books compiled by individuals, and perhaps it was in one of those that you found the Grand Jury list you quoted -- so perhaps there was a typo in the year as that individual entered it in his/her book? (I had earlier mistakenly thought you were looking at some transcribed index for the actual Prince George County, Virginia County Records of 1733-1790.) Perhaps BYU is rearranging the website's way of reaching different things. I'll list below the way that, today, gets to their "Family History Archive" section. That section is *not* described as being the Family History Library, as I had mistakenly concluded earlier. BYU's Family History Archive is described as: Access to a repository of histories created by families to record and celebrate the lives of their ancestors. Today at least: - Go to: http://www.lib.byu.edu/ - Choose: "Find Other Materials" - Then on right side of screen, choose "Online Collections at BYU" (When I chose "Electronic" as Maynard had said the other day, there was no "Text Collections" to get to after that) - Then across top of "Online Collections" page, pick the "Text Collections" tab. - From there choose "Family History Archive" That takes one to the Search page. To find any Poythress entries, I put Poythress in the bottom search box, and put a checkmark in the "full text search" box. Cheers, Barbara John M. Poythress wrote: > Some has been digitized and posted. > > Go to: http://www.lib.byu.edu/ > Choose: > Find Other Materials > Electronic > Choose the tab "Text Collections" > Choose: Family History Archives > > Following is the only Poythress entry of interest to me and I included > the entire jury list as all the usual suspects are there: > > 11 Jan 1720 > Prince George County Records, 1733-1790, p. 208 > > Grand Jury empanelled consisting of William Batte, William Gibbs, Thomas > Leath, Nicholas Hatch, Thomas Poythress, > John Brockwell, John Chamless, Edward Woodleif, John Cureton, William > Parsons, William Crawley, Daniel Sturdivant, > Lewis Epes, John Epes, William Mattox, Benjamin Simmons, Samuel Lee, > John Burge, Tillman Patteson, Reuben Baird, > John Hardaway, Roger Taylor and James Pittillo. > Jury made the following presentments: > Elizabeth Jones in Parish of Brandon for having a bastard child. > William Floyd, a common swearer. > William Bleighton, for not going to church. > William Irby, for same. > etc. etc. > Signed: William Batte, Foreman > All of above summoned to next court. > > > > Maynard > > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > Poythress Genealogy Research Web > www.poythress.net > >