In a message dated 12/2/2000 8:02:56 AM Central Standard Time, VAAMELIA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Looking for the Parents of Claiborne and Samuel H. Foster. Claiborne married Priscilla Owen. Claiborne and Priscilla had a son named Clayborn. 1850 cencus shows him in Amelia co. Va., later ended up in Mississippi. Please e-mail or reply, thanks >> David, I cannot answer your question but can some even earlier Fosters in Amelia Co. I am descended from the Johnsons and Pillows who lived in what is now the southwestern part of Amelia County. My Pillows were from Essex Co. and had Booker relatives there, and I suspect the Bookers in Amelia Co. may have had Essex Co. roots too. From "Deed Books 1 - 14 of Amelia County, Virginia" compiled by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey with the first volume pub.1981: "Josiah Ellington of Lunenburg County, Virginia sold 400 acres to Sherwood Walton on October 9, 1779 for 1,500 pounds on a branch of Flat Rock Creek known Walnut Branch, adjoining James Legg, William Pillow, Richard Johnson, Booker FOSTER, Webster and the widow Jessery. [No witnesses listed.] (ACDB 15:231)." [Richard A. Pillow, Sr. married Cynthia FOSTER in Lawrence Co., Tennessee in 1857.] Tax List B (Nottoway Parish, Amelia Co. (Nottoway County formed 1788/1799): 31 Mar 1787 Museo [sic] Atkerson taxed for himself, 3 blacks over 16, 4 blacks under 16, 3 horses and 15 head of cattle. Also visited on this date were Samuel and William Baldwin, Thomas Beedle, James Cook, William Craddock, Jr., Peter Dupuy, John FOSTER, Edward Hudson, Ashly, Benja. and Gerrard Johnson, Covington and William Smith. [Ashley Johnson/Benjamin Johnson.] Cleve Nashville