Hi Tom, and others, Just recently, the Fauquier chancery index has been up-loaded the LVA digital library. Ms. Marty Hiatt, CGRS "Document what you find, listen to what you are told, and especially, love and respect your work." John Morris CGRS is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Bishop" <gtbishop@hsc.vcu.edu> To: <VAFAUQUI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:19 PM Subject: Weathers / Withers > Look at the Library of Virginia web site ("What We Have"), where they have a > Chancery index for some VA counties. They have one for Frederick county > ("northwest"). I looked and there's one entry for a Ralph Weathers vs. Sarah > Harell, 1796. Then when you search for Withers, there are several entries, 1821 & > upwards, John & Reuben Withers, et. al. > > To view the chancery files, you need to borrow the microfilm via ILL (if that's > possible), or go to the Library of VA and look at the files on microfilm. I've > looked at them before and there's plenty of Loudoun people ... Fauquier also, I > assume. There just might be some very useful Weathers / Withers information in > these files. With chancery cases, you never know until you look. It might be > nothing, but then again it could detail relationships. > > I would have to guess that the Thomas Weathers who married Bonham would have had to > at the least visited Frederick county, VA, where Aaron Bonham lived. I don't have > the record with me, but there's some court order in Frederick where their two names > are together. But no useful genealogical information in that court order. (Thomas > Weathers m. a Bonham). > > Tom Bishop > > P.S. My memory is foggy on this -- but I remember reading somewhere about a > Fauquier chancery index that is available only at the Fauquier county courthouse. I > sure would like to know if I'm correct on that? Years ago, someone sent me a copy > of a Fauquier co., chancery suit which demolished a genealogical "brick wall" for > me (John O. Lawrence family). > > ______________________________