Yea, the Stokes family married into the Christopher family also... Jacobus Christopher, the son of Nicholas and Ann Christopher, married Susannah Stokes, the daughter of Young and Elizabeth Stokes. The Stokes family were originally from Charles City County, Virginia. Jacobus Christopher of Lunenburg on the 29th of July, 1756, paid John Nance of Amelia £16 for a 385 acre tract of land in Luenburg on Dry Creek. Later, on the 4th of December, 1764, Jacobus paid Benjamin Collier of Lunenburg £16-5 for 26 acres lying on the south side of Dry Creek in Lunenburg. On these tracts the family probably resided until his death in 1774. Jacobus Christopher's will was dated March 26, 1774, and probated August 4, 1774. To his niece Elizabeth Blagrave, he left one negro wench. To his sister Susannah Toone, he left a tract of land in Mecklenburg during her life, and after her death it was to pass to his nephew Jacobus Christopher, son of his brother David, together with all his books and clothes, etc. To Susannah Christopher Thompson, he left four negroes when she was married or reached the age of 18. If she left no heirs, the negroes were to be equally divided among his and his wife Susannah's brothers and sisters. To his wife, he left the legacy left by her father, Young Stokes. Henry Stokes was the executor of the will of Jacobus Christopher, deceased. On April 9, 1778, he left to Mary Wallace and John Blankenship a tract of land which Jacobus Christopher in his lifetime had agreed to sell to Thomas Murry consisting of 50 acres on a branch of Dry Creek for £30. And whereas John Blankenship was assignee of Thomas Murry, Chancery Court granted the land to John Blankenship instead of to Susannah Christopher Thompson, to whom the land descended according to the will. John Blankenship was an infant and gave the land to Mary Wallace during her life and then to come to him. --- Audrey Pool <aep@madnet.net> wrote: > David, My experience is that other SC-Lists become > active while waiting for > one county list. Are you on other SC Lists? I saw > David CHRISTOPHER in a > deed book of Lunenburg County, 1761. he is in land > transactions, but what > interested me was how close he lived to the STOKES > family. STOKES > intermarried with POOL and PETTYPOOL, so still don't > know which one of them > Mitchell POOL belongs to; perhaps PETTYPOOL. Audrey > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Christopher" <srunreal@yahoo.com> > To: <burbage-l@rootsweb.com>; > <christopher-l@rootsweb.com>; > <christopher@yahoogroups.com>; > <scabbevi-l@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:33 PM > Subject: [SCABBEVI] Testing > > > >I am testing my message boards. I think something > must > > be wrong with the servers, as I have not seen a > > message come across any of the boards for almost > 24 > > hours. Did y'all go on strike and somebody forgot > to > > tell me? Did we do such a good job, everybody > found > > who they were searching for and we are out of > > business? I know, everybody got bored reading my > > long-winded messages, everyone fell asleep sitting > at > > your computer?? Ok, maybe I have spammed my way > out of > > my own message boards, heh. I don't get it, I have > > never seen the boards this quiet, I just changed > to a > > new deodorant, I know that can't be the problem, > heh. > > Ok, I can't figure it, what the heck, "Damn the > > torpedoes, full speed ahead!" > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you > sell. > > http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > > SCABBEVI-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to SCABBEVI-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC