Thought I'd forward this to the list as it is pretty important--at least to me. Thanks to Claudine I now know my Susannah Pyron's maiden name and prior married name. Glenn Gohr (Pyron List Manager) ggohr01@mail.orion.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 16:45:23 -0500 From: A B & Claudine <grand4@flash.net> To: ggohr01@mail.orion.org Subject: Joshua Pyron Glenn have you read the Petition of Bond V. Brown? It reads: BRONW,Bond V. and wife, Susannah. Bond V. Brown of Caswell County, North Carolina, "sheweth that he intermarried with a certain Susannah Kerns in the month of August one thousand seven hundred & ninety one. (W)e lived in Peace & harmony until the yar (1800) when without any provocation whatever that I had any knowledge of ...the said Susannah left my bed and board leaving with me four chjildren - one of which was at the breast, and went of(f) with a man by the name of Joshua PYRON to the State of Tennessee with whom she has lived in a state of adultery & abandonment ever since." Your petitioner has been credibly informed the said Susannah is still living with said PYRON and has had five children by him. "Your petitioner has some property which may be serviceable to his said children at his death & having a wish that the said Susannah nor her children should enjoy any lawful title or claim to the same ...," he prays a law securing to him what property he now has or hereaafter may acquire. (On reverse:"rejected.") (GASR Nov.-Dec. 1811, Box 3:folder "Petitions - Divorces".) This was printed in the book "Divorces and Separations from Petitions to the North Carolina Geneeral Assembly from 1779, by Ransom McBride P. O. Bob 4723, Cary, NC 27519. I do not have a copy of the Petition but you could order it from the NC State Archives in Raleigh, NC. I can tel you from experience that it is costly to order anything from another state to NC. I am not from your direct line of Pyrons but I am a direct line from William Pyron, Revoutionary Soldier, from Mecklenburg NC. He was born in 1757 in Louisa Co. VA and came to Orange Co. NC when he was "a small babe" according to his pension application. I have some copies of records of the St. Paul Parish records in Kent Co. VA. I am sure we tie in somewhere with the other Pyrons but I don't know how at this time. I am in contact with a Thelma Pyrant Dix who lives in the "Flat River" area in Caswell county, NC that all the Pyrons from VA settled . Notice the spelling of her maiden name. It seems her line retained the older spelling. I can send you a copy of my ancestor chart if you would like and see if any of your Pyrons tie into mine. Claudine Pyron Morgan Humble, TX grand4@flash.net