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Southside Virginian a Journal of Genealogy and History Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/southsidevirgini111993 (Virginia Beach Public L I Fc Central Library r ' 4100 Va Beach Va Bea^h VA : THE SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIAN A JOURNAL OF GENEALOGY AND HISTORY Vol. XI No. 1 January — March 1993 The Southside Virginian The Southside Virginian, published since 1983, is owned by Kathryn Sawyer Hooper and Christopher Nt Hooper, P. O. Box 3684, Richmond, VA 23235. It is published quarterly, with issues appearing in January, April, Jury, and October of each year. Subscriptions are $20.00 per year, postage included, and are on a calendar year basis, with subscribers receiving all issues for the year in which they subscribe. Back issues, where available, are $25.00 per volume (4 issues). Reprints of back issues are $40.00 per volume (4 issues). Please inform the publishers, at the above address, of any change in address. The Southside Virginian, solicits unpublished source material of genealogical and historical significance to researchers of Southside Virginia which includes the counties of Amelia, Appomattox, Bedford, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Franklin, Greensville, Halifax, Henry, Isle of Wight, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nansemond, Norfolk, Nottoway, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Princess Anne, Southampton, Surry, and Sussex. Efforts are made to balance the material published so that the greatest coverage of the geographical area can be achieved. All materials submitted for publication should be well documented and be factually accurate. Every effort is made to check submitted materials for accuracy and originality, but neither the owners or staff of The Southside Virginian can assume responsibility for errors on the part of its contributors. Corrections of proven errors will appear in subsequent issues of the magazine. All material appearing in The Southside Virginian is copyrighted in the name of The Southside Virginian. This copyright protects all original materials published, and is not intended to interfere with the copyright of any materials quoted or cited by our authors. It is understood that records in the public domain cannot be copyrighted. Transcriptions and abstracts of such records as deeds, probated wills, tax records, tombstone inscriptions, etc., can be protected in the form in which they are submitted. The form this material takes in The Southside Virginian is covered by the general copyright of the magazine. Contributors should use extreme care not to infringe on the copyright of others. Neither the owners or staff of The Southside Virginian are responsible for any infringement of copyrights by its contributors. Written permission must be granted by the owners of this magazine for the reproduction, in any form, of any material contained herein. This magazine is produced on Positive 80486 25mhz and Packard-Bell 80286 12mhz computers utilizing WordPerfect 5.1, DrawPerfect 1.1, Page-Power, and PC-OCR software. Camera-ready typeset output is provided on an Alps LPX600 300 DPI laser printer using Gh/phix font generation software. Scanning and optical character recognition are performed on an AT&T SC-60 200/400 DPI scanner. Camera-ready copy is produced on Hammermill Papcn, Laser-Plus paper. The Southside Virginian is printed on Hammermill acid-free stock THE SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIAN A JOURNAL OF GENEALOGY AND HISTORY P. O. Box 3684, Richmond, VA 23235 ISSN 0736-5683 CONTENTS Vol. XI No. 1 • Jan - Mar 1993 Editorial 2 Book Reviews And Announcements 3 1748 Freeholders [Brunswick County] 9 Dennis Hudgins Village View Family Cemetery — Emporia, Virginia [Greensville County] ... 17 Ray Sasser Will of John Tucker - 1736 [Norfolk County] 19 Christopher M. Hooper Will of Hillary Matthias - 1799 [Princess Anne County] 21 Christopher M. Hooper Amelia Academy - "The Wigwam" [Amelia County] 23 Kathryn Sawyer Hooper Selections from Halifax County Deed Books 33 - 37 (1824 - 1829) 26 /. C Kolbe Will of James Westbrooke — 1711 [Prince George County] 30 Christopher M. Hooper Methodist or City Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia [Campbell County] 32 Kathryn Sawyer Hooper Harrup vs Harris — Reading Original Records 37 Christopher M. Hooper "Fancy Farm" [Bedford County] 39 Kathryn Sawyer Hooper Queries 41 Index 45 copyright ©1993 - The Southside Virginian EDITORIAL ITS 1993. AND WHERE ARE YOUR ANCESTORS!!! This little play on words certainly has some implications for the family researcher. All of us who have been involved in genealogical endeavors for some time have branches of our families which defy the rational approaches to research. We trace every lead, use every form of deductive logic, to give us the clues necessary to find conclusive evidence. Being a genealogical researcher is similar to being a private detective. Sometimes we must look beyond the obvious, and utilize our reasoning skills to approach the problem at hand. If a record does not exist in the county will or probate books for someone we are researching, we should not just accept that as a fact. Often times wills appeared in other public records or documents, sometimes not even in the county or state being researched. We don't just look in the county where our ancestors resided, but in all of the surrounding counties as well. Knowing the history and formation of the counties and states aids us in this research. This leads us to one of the basic philosophies of publication utilized by The Southside Virginian. We believe that presenting transcriptions of the records in their entirety gives our readers much more useful information. Abstracts are certainly valuable in that they provide a short synopsis of masses of raw genealogical data. But, they cannot give you the little clues that may be needed to deduce relationships or family interactions. In reading abstracts, one cannot understand the flavor of the life and times of the individuals whose names are included. This is not a put-down of abstractors. Abstractors provide a valuable and very necessary service for researchers. We cannot all get to the courthouse and read all of the records there. What we can do however, is obtain copies of the original documents from which the abstracts were taken. This not only allows us to confirm the abstractors work, but when these copies are read, allows us to see the context in which the original document was produced. This is where we may get the clues we need to make our future research decisions. If we only look at the raw data which we record on the genealogy charts, how many clues to the missing individuals will we miss? We must remember that our ancestors lived 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for their entire lives. They interacted with their families, neighbors, and government. Just as we do today. When we think of them as living, breathing, individuals who made decisions about their lives based on these interactions, we can come to truly know them. They are not just entries in a clerk's records, which have now been condensed into a line in an abstraction. As a magazine devoted to the HISTORY AND GENEALOGY of Southside Virginia, we prefer to publish the complete records when available. We will, of course, continue to publish abstractions of voluminous records. We do hope that the mix of transcriptions and abstractions which we provide, gives our subscribers an insight into the lives of the people of Southside Virginia. Chris Hooper, Publications Manager Page 2 The Southside Virginian, Vol. XI No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Dorothy S. Provine, Index to District of Columbia Wills 1801-1920. 218 pp; paper (8V2 x 11); $25.00 + $3.00 shipping (MD tax 5%, MI tax 4%). 1992. More than 22,700 wills were filed in the District of Columbia Orphans' Court (Probate Ct.) during the time period 1801-1920. These records were transferred to the District of Columbia Archives, 1300 Naylor Ct., NW, Washington, DC 20001-4225, in 1990, and assigned to Record Group 2, Records of Superior Court. Ms. Provine has provided an alphabetical listing of these records which are stored in the Archives by year of filing and then alphabetically. The entries consist of name of person, year of filing (which is often a short time after the death of the testator), and the number of the archive box holding the document. Although the list contains many names of notable historical figures (e.g., Francis Scott Key, Dolly Madison, George Washington), the majority are those of the local middle and upper class property owners who wished proper distribution of their possessions. A large number of these wills were penned by Washington's more prosperous African- Americans. This book is an excellent tool for anyone researching individuals living in the District of Columbia during the 19 th century. Order from Genealogical Publishing Co., 1001 N. Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202. (800) 296-6687. Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims, 69 volumes. Pages vary per volume; index in each volume; acid-free paper; paper (6 x 9); price varies per volume (shipping $1.50 for $0-10.00 order, $2.50 for $10.01- 25.00 order, $3.50 for $25.01-50.00 order, $4.50 for over $50.00 order). The Publick Claims represent the reports made by the county courts to Richmond, in booklet form, constituting the claims made by the civilian population for contributions to the Revolutionary War. These typically were for provisions or services rendered to military. For instance, in the Brunswick County booklet on p. 58 is a listing of "Persons employed in beef driving," which gives a listing of individuals, the number of days they served, and what they were paid. On p. 72 is a listing of individuals who were to receive £1/10 for furnishing "cloathing & beef for the Army the 13 th Dec.
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