There have been questions to the list recently about land processioning. I have transcribed the processioner's report of Frederick Oberthier and Moses Hubbard which was done in Pittsylvania County between the last day of Sept. and the last day of March, 1833/1834. If anyone is interested in a copy I will be glad to send you one. However, it runs 12 pages in a Word doc and is a bit much to paste into an email. I can attach the file to an email for those of you who can receive attachments. It is about 134 KB. It really isn't very exciting reading unless your relatives are there. There are more trees involved than there are people and after a while your eyes begin to cross and roll back in your head. So, if you would like to know whether or not you have relatives involved in the process before you ask for the file, I can paste lists of the people to an email and send them to you. There are the people whose land is actually processioned, people who were not necessarily the land owners but accompanied the processioners, and people who are mentioned within the descriptions of the land because they had property in the area. In all there are about 190 names. It's possible some of them are duplicates because if the land belonged to "William Cox" and "Wm. H. Cox" was present at the processioning I didn't assume they were the same one. I have left the abbreviations and spelling of the words as they were for the most part. And of course the transcription is always subject to my misinterpretations and mistakes. I would like to try to plot the location of my relatives, but so far haven't gotten around to doing that. I don't know where a lot of the landmarks are and can't find them on the maps I have. So once you get the description you are on your own. I can tell you that the area is west of Chatham, around Bearskin Creek and the Banister River, over to the Henry County line. It was the bounds of Frederick Oberthier's Company of Militia. Virginia Baxter jbaxter@myriad.net