This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper, Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/803 Message Board Post: Charles ROPER is mentioned in a probate ad appearing in the Virginia Gazette on 16 May 1771 [at Page 3, Coulmn 1] and 23 May 1771 [at Page 3, Column 2]: "To Be SOLD (pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mr. Thomas Williams, desceased) to the highest Bidder on Monday the 17th of June, at Dinwiddie Courthouse, being Court Day, if fair, otherwise at the July Court following, THE LAND and PLANTATION, near Petersburg, whereon the said Williams lived, containing four Hundred and ten Acres, with sundry improvements thereon, also two other Tracts adjoining the same, one containing four Hundred and forty four, and the other three Hundred and ninety three Acres, on each of them there is a great Quantity of fine Timber, of Pine more especially. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed for one Half the Purchase Money, and two Years for the other Half, on giving Bond and approved security. At the same time will also be sold another Tract of four Hundred Acres, in the said County of Dinwiddie, being on or near Hatcher's Run, in the Neighbourhood of Mr. John Roberts, Charles Roper, etc. FRANCIS EPPES, THOMAS WILLIAMS, Executors" * The Charles ROPER mentioned is presumably the Charles ROPER who married Anne GOODWYN and whose 1760 Dinwiddie Patent is shown in my previous Post: "Dinwiddie County, VA, Patent of 10 Sep 1760 To Charles Roper" (22 Jun 2002 1:37 AM GMT) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.roper&m=490 Hatcher's Run is a stream in Dinwiddie Southwest of Petersburg, flowing past Burgess just below the Petersburg Municipal Airport about this location: http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=18&X=86&Y=1285&W=3 http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=18&X=342&Y=5145&W=3 http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=18&X=345&Y=5142&W=3 This stream feeds Jordan Lake, a Fort Lee recreation area, and then continues to the Southeast. Interstate 85 traverses this stream between Petersburg and the town of Dinwiddie. * Thomas WILLIAMS patented at least four tracts in Dinwiddie County. Images of these Patents, including a Patent for 564 acres on 15 May 1755, a Patent for 300 acres on 14 Feb 1761, a Patent for 1315 1/2 acres on 23 May 1763, and an additional Patent for 400 acres on 23 May 1763, may be viewed online at the web site of the Library of Virginia: http://www.lva.lib.va.us/