Name: va_families -- Some Early Virginia Families

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Family
Marriage:
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  • : Birth: BEF 1740. Death: BEF 1775
Children:

  1. Lucy Poythress: Birth: BEF 1760 in Virginia.

  2. Anne Isham Poythress: Birth: 1760 in Virginia. Death: 14 JUN 1784

  3. William Poythress: Birth: BEF 1769 in Virginia.

  4. Mary Poythress: Birth: ABT 1768 in Virginia. Death: in ~Virginia

  5. Benjamin Poythress: Birth: BEF 1769 in Virginia. Death: BEF 1789 in ~Dinwiddie County, Virginia

  6. Sally Poythress: Birth: BEF 1769 in Virginia.


Sources
1. Title:   LVA
Page:   Poythress Card 192-193
Author:   RBB

Notes
a. Note:   Write up with Trial Chart of the Descendants of Francis Poythress Prepar ed April 1977 by R. Bolling Batte found in Virginia State Library, Archiv es Division Accession Number 29493 transcribed by John M. Poythress:
  252 William Poythress (1728 - c. 1768), m. (1) Mary Eppes (1731 - 1750). The only knowled ge of her existence comes from her tomb in Bothwell graveyard in Dinwidd ie County. This recites that she was "daughter of Capt. William Eppes a nd wife to William Poythress, Jr." Which of the several William Eppes w as her father has not been definitely settled. There were no known childr en of this marriage. William�s second, but unidentified, wife was the moth er of his six known children whose names come to light by a division of t he slaves of William�s estate, decreed in 1775. William Poythress was elec ted to the vestry of Bristol Parish on 5 Aug 1760 to succeed his father, r ecently deceased. He was County Lieutenant for Prince George County in 176 1.

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