Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/309 Surname: Mitchell, Dolton, Dalton ------------------------- One James Mitchell born about 1748-1750 in Va or NC married a Agatha Dalton on Nov.22,1768 in Pittsylania Co,Va.,her Father was Robert Dalton.Does anyone know of the following questions,1.Where was James born,2.who were James parents,3. how many brothers and sisters did he have,4.James had a second marriage to a Nancy Mitchell(maiden Name ?),does any one know anything about this Nancy,5.James died in 1822 in Kentucky,when did he leave Va. for Kentucky,6.How many children did Agatha & James have,and were did they live after their Father married Nancy,7.in what year did Agatha die and where was she buried. I know this are quite difficult questions to answer,but these will clear up some questionable problems in this lineage.I deeply appreciate any info on these Mitchell's

Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/308 Surname: CREWS ------------------------- Pittsylvania County Mixed Probate Records, Book 4, 1805-1812. James CREWS listed. However, when I contacted Pittsylvania County Clerk's Office, I was informed I needed the page number before I could request a copy of the will. Does anyone have access to the records who could/would look up the page number for me so I can order a copy of the will. Thanks in advance. Linda in Dallas, TX

Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/307 Surname: Danville Prison ------------------------- Can anyone tell me if the historical society there has a list of the Civil War Union dead from Danville Prison buried in the National Cemetery?

This is an excellent site for researching original and very old documents in Virginia. It requires a special viewer which can be downloaded free at the site. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. The site an a few how-to tips are listed below. Leota Virginia Library Digital collection site. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm Choose the area you wish to research. Then in that area you will find a name that is just before your ancestor in the list and click on it. at that page, proceed through the different records. Some sections are different than others. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.177 / Virus Database: 86 - Release Date: 8/7/00

Philip Southerland is found on the Pittsy Co. Tax List for 1767. He had purchased land in Halifax Co. (parent Co. of Pittsy Co.) in 1765. I recently came into possession of letters written by great grand children that say, "Philip, Sr. of Va. had letters & grants from James Southerland his father of the Orkney Islands". The Orkney Islands are off the NE coast of Scotland. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can find the letters & grants? Would they be in an Archive some where in VA, or can they be found on the Internet? Thanks, Elmer Compton Sarasota, FL ComptonEF@aol.com

My Tucker Woodson of Pitts. Co. married Anne Stott in Pitts. Co. and their records in Greenville Co., SC refer to her as Nancy Woodson & Anne Woodson. Val Greenwood, in THE RESEARCHER'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN GENEALOGY, 2nd Edition (Baltimore, MD: Gen. Pub. Co., 1990, p. 40) points out that Nancy was the diminutive for Ann. Mr. Greenwood's book is now in a 3rd edition (2000) peggy b chapman lubbock,tx > Martha, don't have the info on Samuel, other than his name but I believe the marriage is in the Marriage register for 1 Dec 1792 & I have her listed as > "Anne" Overton. Didn't know about the "Nancy" part. > Laura Irby > > << Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries > Reply Here: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/301 > > Surname: Harris > ------------------------- > > Seeking information on Samuel Harris born about 1770 in > Strawberry, Pittsylvania, Va. Do not know parents names. > He married Nancy Ann Overton in this county in 1791. Great, great, great grandparents. Thank you. Martha Pior >>

Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/306 Surname: amos yates ------------------------- i`m seeking any info i can get on amos yates .i have lots on martha mccoy/ ..but need any info on amos yates he was born in buchanan va 1866 moved to pike co ky

Martha, don't have the info on Samuel, other than his name but I believe the marriage is in the Marriage register for 1 Dec 1792 & I have her listed as "Anne" Overton. Didn't know about the "Nancy" part. Anyway I have her as the child of William Overton & Judith Brumfield [sorry, I haven't a clue where I got the info]. Anyway, I have more on Judith, in my husband's Brumfield info. Maybe someone else has the Harrris info. Happy Familying Laura Irby << Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/301 Surname: Harris ------------------------- Seeking information on Samuel Harris born about 1770 in Strawberry, Pittsylvania, Va. Do not know parents names. He married Nancy Ann Overton in this county in 1791. Great, great, great grandparents. Thank you. Martha Pior >>

Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/305 Surname: Reynolds, Joyce, Hicks, Williams ------------------------- Seeking any links to the following ancestors in Pittsylvania Co.: Sons of Obadiah REYNOLDS: J.M. REYNOLDS born 1812 William H. C. REYNOLDS born 1814 married Ann Eliza JOYCE children of WHC Reynolds: Robert Obadiah REYNOLDS b.1848 d.1874 James W. REYNOLDS b.1849 d.1876 M. REYNOLDS b.1854 Cornelia Ann James REYNOLDS b.1858 married Robert P.WILLIAMS J.E.REYNOLDS b.1860 E.R.REYNOLDS b.1862 others: W.S. REYNOLDS married to W.H.HICKS 1873 A.HICKS b.1874 J.W.HICKS b.1877 Haywood REYNOLDS b.1884 Any possible links or information would be greatly appreciated. These names are from a family bible and we are seaching for any leads, as we have very sketchy info on these ancestors. Thanks

Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/302 Surname: Harris ------------------------- Meet your ancestors book by Noland (Hubbard) Bowling lists his parents as Samuel Harris I (Jan 12, 1724-Oct 2,1799 Pittsylvania co. Va.)and Lucy Camp. this book has a lot of information on Samuel Harris I. He did great things in Pittsylvania C. Va.His biorgaphy is on page 585. A Monument is Pitts, Co also. He was a Baptist preacher.

I am on vacation I will return on 08/26/00. Have a great week!!! -------------------- Original Message: >From vapittsy-d-request@rootsweb.com Mon Aug 21 00:24:45 2000 Return-Path: <vapittsy-d-request@rootsweb.com> X-Track: 1: 40 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (63.92.80.123) by mta118.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2000 17:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e7L0OEX11257; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:24:14 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:24:14 -0700 Message-Id: <200008210024.e7L0OEX11257@lists5.rootsweb.com> From: VAPITTSY-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: VAPITTSY-D Digest V00 #268 X-Loop: VAPITTSY-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <VAPITTSY-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume00/268 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: VAPITTSY-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain VAPITTSY-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 268 Today's Topics: #1 [VAPITTSY-L] Daniel Coleman & Anne [DGShel@aol.com] #2 Re: [VAPITTSY _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/301 Surname: Harris ------------------------- Seeking information on Samuel Harris born about 1770 in Strawberry, Pittsylvania, Va. Do not know parents names. He married Nancy Ann Overton in this county in 1791. Great, great, great grandparents. Thank you. Martha Pior

I am still seeking information on the background of William Bybee who married Martha "Patsy" Worsham in Campbell County Dec. 20, 1812. They lived in Pittsylvania County and had the following children: Ann T. Bybee m. Anderson D. Crowder Dabney Bybee m. (1) Lockey Dove; (2) Louisa Worsham Joseph Bybee Nancy Bybee m. Stephen Dove Lockey Bybee m. Dudley Crowder Francis Bybee The children were placed in the guardianship of John Worsham (Martha Patsy Worsham Bybee's brother) by Mordecai Hagood in the 1830's. Does anyone know who William's parents were or anything about him? Does anyone know anything additonal about the children listed above? Thanks! ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Va/Pittsylvania/300 Surname: Swain, Barber, Ramsey, Woodson, Witcher, Shockley ------------------------- I'm looking for any information on JOSHUA B SWAIN and his Wife MARTHA A. RAMSEY. They had 6 children: George E.,Mary A.,Joshua B.,Martha T.,John L.,Sally C. I know Martha Ramsey parents are Norton A. Ramsey and Rachel Witcher.If any one has any information I would be grateful to get it. They all lived in Pittsylvania County Virginia.

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"Colonel Coleman married, on November 21, 1798, Anne Payne Harrison, daughter of William Harrison. Ten children were born to the union." "....according to his friend Benjamin W.S. Cabell." The above were found in "The Coleman Family YOUTHFUL COURAGE IN A MAN’S WORLD" on http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapittsy/families.htm Can anyone tell me who the ten children were? Was one of them Elvira Cabell Coleman, b. 1820, who married William S. Yeatts in 1838? Thanks. Glen Shelton River Ridge, LA

Know all men by these presents, That we Joseph Parsons Sr. and William Holt are held and firmly bound unto James Pleasants Jr. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and his successor, in the just and full sum of one hundred and fifty Dollars; to which payment well and truly to be made, we find ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated the 26th day of Augt 1824. The condition of the above Obligation is such, That whereas the above bound Joseph Parsons Sr. hath this day obtained a license for his intermarriage with Sally Thompson of Pittsylvania County. Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force. Joseph (X) his mark, Parsons (Seal) Wm Holt {Seal} Marriage Bonds, Pittsylvania County, Copied by Richard M. Price, May 6, 2000 Joseph Parsons was married first to Margaret Griffith, daughter of William and Rachel Griffith. In the 1830 Pittsylvania Census, Joseph was 80-90 years of age. Sally was 40-50. There was also another female in the household, age 40-30. Does anyone have any information on Sally? Was she married before her marriage to Joseph, and did she have a daughter? Thanks, Donna Price

I just wanted to take this time to apologize to everyone for how far behind I have fallen with the Archives. This has been one heck of a summer :) But it's been fun, just extremely busy. I have updated the WV counties with files recieved during July, so those are already online for you to see. I am now working on the Virginia Counties. The first update I do will be for files rcvd in July, so if you've sent a file in August, it won't be on this update. I need to finish one month before I begin on another. My youngest just started kindergarten and I haven't started back to work yet, so next week I plan to spend getting everything all caught up. Assuming nothing goes wrong, I should have time to get it all done. Thank you all for your patience with me :) Also, I have inherited three new counties in Virginia and will begin working on those web pages after I have finished my work on the counties I have pending files for. Those counties are Goochland, Henrico, and Hanover. So be thinking of anything that you'd like to submit for those counties and soon I'll be posting new files there as well. Thanks again for all of you who have supported me and the archives. I hope to be more prompt in the future :) Jeannie ************* Now Available: "The Descendants of John Thomas Clay, Jamestown Immigrant and son of Sir John Clay of Wales" Also available: "The Descendants of James Bailey & Lucy Simms" For more info: http://www.trellis.net/users/madamx

Message text written by INTERNET:VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com >Excerpt enclosed with copy of Archibald Thompson's French and Indian War Bounty Warrant from The Library of Virginia, ordered June 1998. >From Lloyd DeWitt Brockstruck, "Virginia's Colonial Soldiers." Baltimore: Genealogy Publishing Co., Inc., 1988, pp. preface, vii; 200-201; 212-213. (Typist note: I have typed only the names of the soldiers in the Halifax Co. entry.) p. 201 The following entries are taken from William Waller Hening's collection of the laws of Virginia. During the French and Indian War, the House of Burgesses passed an act for the defense of the frontier of the colony on 14 September 1758. The soldiers mentioned in the schedule attached to this act appear below. Accomack County: . . . Amelia County: . . . Albemarle County: . . . p. 212 Halifax County: Col. Abraham Maury, for pay to Lt. Thomas Green, and a part of militia under the command of said Green, as by muster roll, 42.1.0; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Thomas Spragin as a Lt., and a party of the militia under his command, as by muster roll, 5.10.0; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Capt. Robert Wooding and a company of militia under his command, as by mustr roll, 82.19.0; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Capt. Peter Wilson and a company of militia under his command, as by muster roll, 33.3.4; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Lt. James Dillard and a part of the militia under his command, as by muster roll, 102.4.3; Thomas Calloway, Ens., 0.16.0; Edward Peregoy, John Lewis, Peter Manin, Johnn Childers, William Simmons, Huncrest Scarlock, and John Wade, 0.7.0 each. Col. Abraham Maury, 28 days service in riding to the forts and settling townships, 14.0.0, and for riding from Williamsburg to Halifax, with Mr. President's instructions, 150 miles, 2.10.0; and for 10 days riding to Williamsburg and attending on the committee to settle militia accounts, 5.0.0. Capt. Robert Wade, Jr., for his pay and for that of his officers, and a company of militia, 475.8.6; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Capt. Dillard and his militia company, 414.11.4. Capt. Thomas Callaway, 6.18.0; Lt. William Edwards, 3.9.0; Ens. Hugh Harris, 2.6.0; Sgt. James Elkin and Sgt. John Edwards, 2.18.0 each; John Harris, John Rice, Thomas Norton, Thomas Fern, John Harris, Jr., John Wade, Benjamin Croley, Richard Moore, ARCHIBALD THOMPSON, John Blevins, Clement Lee, Wells Ward, Nathaniel Hendley, John Sturd, James Sturd, William Blevins, Jr., Josiah Cox, Ningum Prator, Nehemiah Prater, John Blevins, Sr., William Asher, and John Gracer, 1.3.0 each; William Rickle, 1.5.0; Joseph Morton, John Lindsey, William Murfee, and George Young, 0.4.0 each; John Sullivant and William Scales, 0.7.0 each; Daniel Durbin, Edward Peregoy, William Ratcliff, Silas Ratliff, and William Satterwhite, 0.12.0 each; John Frederick Pickle and Daniel Newman, 0.6.0 each; James Blevins, 0.15, 0; John Talbot, Thomas Wollin, and Pearce Gwin, 0.8.0 each; William Cox and William Blevins, Sr., 0.9.0 each; John Williams, 0.14.0. Nathaniel Terry, the balance of his pay for attending militia, and building three forts, 29.10.0. Hanover County; Henrico County; James City County; Loudoun County, Louisa County; Lunenburg County . . . . Excerpt ends at p. 213 . ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== Resent-Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:05:45 -0700 X-Original-Sender: morse@shentel.net Sun Jul 9 11:05:42 2000 Message-ID: <00e901bfe9cc$ba5cb020$14366fcc@jemimamo> From: "Jemima Gee Morse" <morse@shentel.net> Old-To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com>, <WVHARDY-L@rootsweb.com>, <FRENCH-INDIAN-L@rootsweb.com>, <THOMPSON-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com>, "VAHALIFA-L@rootsweb.com" <VAHALIFA-D-request@rootsweb.com>, <VABOTETO-L@rootsweb.com>, <KYGREEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:34:00 -0400 Subject: [VAPITTSY-L] HALIFAX, VA., COLONIAL SOLDIERS, FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR X-Mailing-List: <VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1273

Mr. Bateman, I sent for the French and Indian War record for Archibald Thompson in 1998 and received a copy of the Land Office Warrant for Archibald's service. The land grant he got for this service was in Montgomery Co., and recorded in 1793; the image of the grant is available through the Library of Virginia Electronic web site. I will paste all information I got from the LOV below, and in a separate post, give selected entries from Brockstruck's "Virginia Colonial Soldiers," which was enclosed with the copy I received. The excerpt did not include Sussex, so you could check the Bockstuck book to see if your Peter Solomon is listed. Here's the information I sent to LOV when requesting the copy of Archibald's service record: ARCHIBALD THOMPSON DIARY Transcript by Lula Hankins Hunter <http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/archibald/> Page 102 December ye 1st 1759 We was Discharged out of the Second Battallion of the Virginia Ridgement By an Act of Asembly From under the Comd of *Col pechua and Capt Trockmorton and Lieut Richardson. *Per research by Barbara Marsh, "on 14 Sept 1758, the House of Burgesses passed an act for the defense of the Virginia frontier. The Virginia regulars, in 1758, were divided into two regiments; the First Regiment under Col. George Washington, and the Second under Col. William Byrd. Archibald Thompson, as entered in his DIARY, was a member of the Second Regiment, serving under Col. William Peachy, Col. of the Frontier Battalion, and Capt. Gabriel Throckmorton. He was twenty two years old and unmarried. The Regiment was discharged by an Act of Assembly on the 1 Dec 1759, which he noted in his DIARY. . . (Sources: Archibald Thompson Diary, 101,102, and Bockstruck, Virginia Colonial Soldiers, pp 212, 260, 274.)" COPY RECEIVED FROM LOV: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR BOUNTY WARRANTS Reel 360, Warrant #193 (copy 2 facing pages) Proof of service for Archibald Thompson, 22 November 1779 1779 Montgomery Nov Court No 193 Archibald Thompson having produced sufficient proof to this Court that he is entitled to 200 acres of land under the King of Great Britain's proclamation issued in the year 1763 for military service for which he never recd. a warrant and ordered that the same be certified to the Register of the land office for this state. (signed) A copy James M. Corkle Cmd. Warrant for 200 acres issued to Archibald Thompson, November 22, 1779 =============================== Land-Office Warrant No. 193 To the principal Surveyor of any County within the Commonwealth of Virginia. This shall be your Warrant to survey and lay off in one of more Surveys, for Archibald Thompson, his Heirs or Assigns, the Quantity of Two hundred Acres of Land, due unto the said Archibald for military service performed by him as a Serjeant in the late War between Great Britian & France according to the terms of the King of Great Britain's Proclaimation of 1763. A certificate of which duly proven is received into the Land Office. Given under my Hand, and the Seal of the said Office, on this Twenty-third day of November in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy nine. /s/ G. Curr D.R., L.O.". ======================== The Library of Virginia Reel 93, pp. 499-500 Grants 27, 1792-1793 Archibald Thompson, 200 acres, Montgomery County, 15 February 1793 Thompson, Archibald 15 Feby 1793 200a. On Some waters of the Maiden Spring fork of Clinch. LOV Land Office Patents and Grants, Card 41 http://198.17.62.51/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0493/T1709?41 Grants 27, p. 499 Henry See , Esquire., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all who come there presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, that by virtue of part of a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number eighteenth thousand five hundred and seventy two issued the ninth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Archibald Thompson a certain Tract or Parcel of land, containing two hundred acres, by survey, bearing Date the sixth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, lying and being in the County of Montgomery on some waters of the maiden spring fork of Clinch and bounded as followeth To Wit Beginning at an ash and chestnut on the top of a hill and running thence South seventy two degrees East . . . at the end of Puncheon Camp Ridge . . . To have and hold the said parcel of land with its Apputerances, to the said Archibald Thompson and his heirs forever In Witness whereof the said Henry See, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia has hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth (page 500) to be affixed at Richmond on the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nineth three and of the Commonwealth the Seventeenth. /s/ Henry See ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== Find tons of Pitsylvania County info at the Pittsylvania County VAGenWeb Project! http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapittsy/ Resent-Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:05:50 -0700 X-Original-Sender: morse@shentel.net Sun Jul 9 11:05:47 2000 Message-ID: <00ea01bfe9cc$bc9eff00$14366fcc@jemimamo> From: "Jemima Gee Morse" <morse@shentel.net> Old-To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com>, <WVHARDY-L@rootsweb.com>, <LONGHUNTERS-L@rootsweb.com>, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman@NetZero.Net>, <FRENCH-INDIAN-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com>, "VAHALIFA-L@rootsweb.com" <VAHALIFA-D-request@rootsweb.com>, <VABOTETO-L@rootsweb.com>, <VAAUGUST-L@rootsweb.com>, <THOMPSON-L@rootsweb.com> References: <000701bfe8fc$d5f6ff00$8b763004@fpfzqlga> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:39:18 -0400<