Pertinent to Maynard's message discussing Wm & James Poythress (in strings to pull on, in his message re the DNA context), I found in our Poythress-List message archives the message I posted on 24 Feb 1999 in which I transcribed the pages found by Jane, one of our lurkers who was able to get the needed pages copied at a good library in south FL. I transcribed the limited information about the Poythress men (various spellings) listed on the rolls. It was my strong opinion after studying the dates and the Rolls, that there were only a total of 2 Poythress men in these Rolls: William, who was promoted as high as 1st Lt eventually, and James, who always appeared as a Private. The information came from two publications from the same series of Muster Rolls. There were indeed dates in the material, and the dates ranged from 1838 to 1841, with one date that listed 1843. To see the entire transcription message (or to find LOTS of other helpful information posted in these past 8 years on various subjects), go to our message archives. The easiest way is from our Poythress research website, www.poythress.net At our website, if you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer for your access to the internet, put your cursor on the grey-colored band near the top (just under the name of the website), and slide your mouse around until you see the choices below that for "Keyword Search Poythress Message Archives" and "Browse Poythress Message Archives By Month and Year." You can then use the month & date search to go to 1999, February, and on the 24th you'll see the whole message captioned "FL Muster Rolls Seminole Wars" Alternatively, you can use the keyword search function in the year 1999 to search on Seminole or on Muster Rolls. If you use Netscape for your access to the internet, at our Poythress website along the top border you'll actually see "Message Archives" and my placing your cursor on that, the two choices of how to search the archives will show up just below that. Slide your mouse down & over to whichever way you want to search. Happy hunting thru the archives for whatever you want to find.