Thought this might be of some interest. From the Book By Thomas V Watkins, A HISTORY OF POQUOSON VIRGINIA. The Rich Heritage of Thomas Kerby The benevolent planter who lived at the Football Quarter Plantation in New Poquoson, not only provided health security to the area, but planted a healthy genealogical tree there. A semi-biography of the man compiled in an attempt to find his English background is found in "Virginia Settlers and English Adventurers," by Noel Currer-Briggs. Having been in a small way involved with the search of the pedigree and descedants of the kindly man on Football Quarter, I found myself lost and unable to see the forest for the trees. When Mr. Currer-Briggs and his ancestor hunters came to Poquoson in the 50"s, I chauffered them around the area pointing out the various ancient spots which I thought then I knew very well. It was a good lesson because Mr. Currer-Briggs from London knew more about the Freemans, Symmons, Kirbys, Moores and others thatn anyone I had ever talked to before. To review the procedures he used in his genealogical search is a master guide for any genealogist. One of the first services Dr Plouvier had to perform was to attend the birth of the son of Thomas and Mary Kerby:a Robert Kerby, born 1 May 1662. During the year 1667/8 Kirby appeared to be unable to manage the affairs of his plantaion and on 24 January 1667/8 he appointed Robert Shelton as overseer adn attorney-at-law. Also during this period Thomas Kerby had a carpenter's job done on his dwelling house: " one partition across a twenty foot house, a couch making, very slight: two windows removed, one small partition removed out a little, one bedstead. The work was done by Jjohn Alford, which job was appraised by enoch Mackintosh and Robert Penrice, carpenters, and judged to be worth 150 pounds tobacco." arecorded at a court 10 April 1668. Thomas Kerby died 1 June 1668. His will was made 6 March 1668, a month before the rennovation of his house and four months before his death.

Hope...Bless you...Come Monday morning I'm going to find a copy of that book somehow. I got goose bumps reading the excerpt. From what I've been told by any number of Kirby researchers, that's my Thomas and Mary and Robert...The names and dates and locations match what I already have in my FTM program. In a nutshell and very briefly: Robert died 1727 in VA John 1693 VA - 1772 VA John 1745 VA - Unk Jacob 1803 ? - 1880 SC Ransom 1835 SC - Unk, SC Richard 1858 SC - 1935 TX John 1892 TX - 1951 TX Audrey 1913 TX - 1982 TX and me... Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Rex -----Original Message----- From: Hope [mailto:hopestanley@mchsi.com] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:46 PM To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Mary & Thomas Kirby Thought this might be of some interest. From the Book By Thomas V Watkins, A HISTORY OF POQUOSON VIRGINIA. The Rich Heritage of Thomas Kerby The benevolent planter who lived at the Football Quarter Plantation in New Poquoson, not only provided health security to the area, but planted a healthy genealogical tree there. A semi-biography of the man compiled in an attempt to find his English background is found in "Virginia Settlers and English Adventurers," by Noel Currer-Briggs. Having been in a small way involved with the search of the pedigree and descedants of the kindly man on Football Quarter, I found myself lost and unable to see the forest for the trees. When Mr. Currer-Briggs and his ancestor hunters came to Poquoson in the 50"s, I chauffered them around the area pointing out the various ancient spots which I thought then I knew very well. It was a good lesson because Mr. Currer-Briggs from London knew more about the Freemans, Symmons, Kirbys, Moores and others thatn anyone I had ever talked to before. To review the procedures he used in his genealogical search is a master guide for any genealogist. One of the first services Dr Plouvier had to perform was to attend the birth of the son of Thomas and Mary Kerby:a Robert Kerby, born 1 May 1662. During the year 1667/8 Kirby appeared to be unable to manage the affairs of his plantaion and on 24 January 1667/8 he appointed Robert Shelton as overseer adn attorney-at-law. Also during this period Thomas Kerby had a carpenter's job done on his dwelling house: " one partition across a twenty foot house, a couch making, very slight: two windows removed, one small partition removed out a little, one bedstead. The work was done by Jjohn Alford, which job was appraised by enoch Mackintosh and Robert Penrice, carpenters, and judged to be worth 150 pounds tobacco." arecorded at a court 10 April 1668. Thomas Kerby died 1 June 1668. His will was made 6 March 1668, a month before the rennovation of his house and four months before his death. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237