Hello to all: Last fall I made a genealogy jaunt during which I spent a day at the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg. I copied several pages at that time from a manuscript written by Harriett A. Chilton in 1989. It is titled Petitions to Form Appomatix County, Virginia from Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, and Prince Edward Counties 1825-1845. The call number in the library is F 232 .A6 c5 1989 I did not copy the entire manuscript. I would like to do a bit of discussing on what I copied and would like to hear anyone's input on this. The gist of the explanation written by Harriett Chilton is that petitions were presented to form the new County as described above as early as 1825 and continued until the County was established in 1845. These petitions, both for and against, are on file in the Virginia State Library in Richmond, Virginia. Harriet Chilton did not copy all of them. In 1825 a meeting was held at Alexander Patteson's Tavern at Clover Hill in Prince Edward County to discuss a new county called LaFayette. Present at this meeting were John T. Bocock, George Christian, Joel W. Flood, Thomas H. Flood, John Harris, Clement Jennings, Jesse Jennings, Archibald LeGrand, Thomas A. LeGrand, Joseph McAllister, William C. McAllister, James McDearmon, Alexander Patteson, Reason Porter, David Robertson, Richmond Statham, Samuel Stewart, Moses Sweeney, William Trent and David Walker. Clover Hill was renamed Appomatox Court House when the new County was established twenty years later in 1845. Patteson's tavern is still standing as part of th Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (at the time of the writing of this manuscript....according to the author. I am going to stop her and right again when I get time. .. My questions thus far are: First, who is John Harris? Is he the son of William Harris born in 1755 on the James River in Cumberland county, VA and died 22 April 1838? I have a John Harris in my data base who I believe to have been the man named Jack Harris in the Harris Bible pages that are in the possession of my husband's uncle. According to the Bible pages, Jack Harris was born 1 March 1784 and died 13 march 1852. So this man would have been 41 in 1825--the perfect age to have been part of a meeting.... Next does anyone know anything about the other men at the meeting? intermarriages between families? where they lived in this time frame? where they had come from before living where they were living? anything that would shed light on this meeting? Thanks so much for any help on this that you might be able to give me. Marsha in WV