This will was fragmented, but managed to make a connection anyway. Ray's grandmother was a STAPP/STEPP. POWELL/MOSS/STAPP/STEPP are his ancestors. Anyone else have these names in their lineage? Audrey POWELL-STAPP: Old Rappahannock County, VA: "Thomas T. POW____(POWELL) (his marke-not given) What goods I ha__________bred since my making my will_________between daughter may h__________them which is____________Ffrances THRESH___________and my daughter-in-L__________broadcloth to________________ans to be made________-back to be gi____________and as for____________to be kept in my chest______ghter Ffrances THRESH and my pewter and the other things in th________e delivered unto the overseers when my child Come of in______bind again________give my servant Robert BENNETT one cow Calfe weanable when he have______ved two years as witness my hand this 16th Ffebruary 1756 Test Thos T. POWELL (his marke) Clement U THRESH (his marke) George X_______(PEARCE?) Page 74" Will of JAMES TOONE 29 August 1676: Old Rapphannock County, VA "It being 300 acres with 150 acres of Land by me foremerly bought of Richard POWELL..." A witness for Thomas X PANNELL is "John POWELL, aged 33 years or thereabouts." Will of RICE JONES of Old Rapphannock County, VA lists as "Christian Servants, John POWELL and John DIETT..." Witnesses: Peter HOPEGOOD, John POWELL, Edward THOMAS. Page 70 23 Nov 1676 7 Feb 1677/8 "MOSS, Robert 8 August 1685 3 April 1689 In the name of God Amen I Robert MOSS of the County of Rappah k, being of perfect sence & memory & knowing the fragility uncertainty & the brevity of mans Life & being willing to get my affairs in order before I die, doe make this my Last will & Testament In manner & forme as followeth; Imprimis I bequeath my soule to God that gave it, and my body to ye dust from whence it was taken, In sure & Certaine hope of Rerrection to Lifr at ye Last day, through my Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, & dispose of my Estate as followeth I tm I give & bequeath unto my Son Robert MOSS all & singular my Lands & lands in this Colony of Virginia & Else where to have hold & Enjoy to him & his heires for Ever. Item. I give & bequeath unto my beloved Wife Rebeckah MOSS the one halfe parte of my Plantation with the Moiety of the housing fencing gardens and orchards thereupon, to her to have hold and Enjoy for & during her Life. Item. I give & bequeath all & sole my personall Estate to wit, my goods & Chattles Unto my beloved Wife Rebeckah, & my son Robert, to be Equally devided between them saveing & Excepting some Legacies hereafter mentioned. Item. I give unto Laomedon TUCKER or his two Children already borne (to wit) Daniell & Mary one mare fold of one yeare old to them & their heires for Ever, & also two Earling (yearling) heifers to the said Daniell & Mary I give to be them & their Increase in Common between them ye said Daniell & Mary for Evr. Item. I give unto Daniell TUCKER the Use & benefitt of hous! ing & ground to plant his Cropp on and his Diett from time to time & at all times as Long as the said Daniell shall Live. Item. I give & bequeath unto my brother Thomas MOSSES two daughters, (Elizabeth and Frances) two Gold Rings, of ten shillings price apiece Each of them one. Item I gie & bequeath unto William MOSSES Son & daughters (to wit) William MOSS, Ffrances MOSS & Elizabeth MOSS, three Gold Rings of then shillings price apiece; to Each of them one. Item. I give & bequeath Unto my two grand-daughters (the daughters of Abraham STAPP by my daughter Dorothy) (to wit Rebeckah & Martha STAPP) two mare folds of the age of two yeares Each, to have & to hold the said mare folds 7 their Increase in Common to them & their heires for Ever, alwayes be it provided that when Either of ye said daughters shall attain ye age of Eighteene yeares that then she may make an Equall division of this said Legacie & Enjoy her Due part. Item. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Dorothy, the wife of Abraham STAPP, one gold Ring of Eighteen shillings price. Item I give Unto Jeremiah PARKER the son of Thomas PARKER one heifer of a yeare old. Item. I Will, ordaine, & appoynt my beloved Wife Rebeckah, & my Son Robert MOSS, to be Joynt Executrix & Executor of this m! y last will, & doe Revoke annull all former Will or Wills by me had and made appoynting this and no other to be my Last Will & testament. In witness hereof I hereunto publish my name, & affixe my Seale, & make publication herof In the presence of honent & Lawfull witnesses; this Eighth day of August in the yeare of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, one Thousand sixe hundred & five. Signed sealed & Published Robert MOSS Seal in the presence of us Abraham STAPP John M MILLS his mark Tho: PARKER" Note: I kept the original spelling, etc, of this document. (aep)