I hope this works. I have no clue what I'm doing with this new scanner. Excerpt from the Neale book on Brunswick county. And please. I do not know the proof of this. I have not researched this line. They are not my kin. Edwin HISTORY OF CLERKS OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY bv rose angelyn poarch Biographical sketches of the Clerks of Brunswick County—a record of ovei 50 years—as taken from the "Petersburg Weekly Index-Appeal, Sept. 6, 1888." DRURY STITH The first clerk of the county was Drury Stith. Having been commissioned by Hon. Charles Carter, Secretary of Virginia, this, the first incumbent of the clerkship of the County of Brunswick, qualified as clerk on the 11th day of May, 1732, and held the office until his death in June, 1740. He was the Col. Drury Stith mentioned by Col. Wm. Byrd in "A journey to the land of Eden" (Westover mss.) in the paragraph wherein the author, under the date of Sept. 13, 1733, says: "By the way, I sent a runner half a mile out of the road to Col. Drury Stith's, who was so good as to come to us. We cheered our hearts with three bottles of pretty good Madeira, which made Drury talk very hopefully of his copper mine. We easily prevailed with him to let us have his company, upon condition we would take the mine in our way." The subject of this sketch was a son of John Stith of Charles City County, a man of prominence and influence in the Colony as early as 1616 a fact attested by his being disfranchised along with Col. Edward Hill of the same county by the adherents of Nathaniel Bacon by an act of assembly passed during the period of Bacon's rebellion (Chap, xx, Bacon's laws, 2 Henning's Statutes at Large, Page 364), but which along with other acts and orders of the same assembly was sub­sequently annulled by a royal proclamation, Col. John Stith subsequently (in 1693) holding office in the Colony as a member of the house of burgesses. Col. Drury Stith was an uncle of Rev. Wm. Stith, the historian, and in sub­sequent generations, during the last one hundred and fifty years, has been repre­sented by a large number of descendants in Virginia and other southern states, among them many persons of public and private life. His son, Drury Stith, repre­sented the County of Brunswick in the house of Burgesses in 1748. Of the descendants of Col. Drury Stith at least eight became clerks certainly the following: Griffin Stith, one of the early clerks of the County Court of Northampton. Drury Stith, Charles Turnbull, Edward Randolph Turnbull, Robt. Turnbull, re­spectively the ninth, fourteenth, and sixteenth clerks of the county court of Bruns­wick, Edward Randolph Turnbull, Jr., the first clerk of the circuit court of Brunswick after the separation of the offices, David Meade Bernard, the second clerk of the corporation court of Petersburg and John Randolph Stith one of the clerks of the county court of Northumberland.