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^or Reference Oo Not Take From the Library Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/southsidevirgini91991 THE SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIAN A JOURNAL OF GENEALOGY AND HISTORY n.- ^Virg,lnla Beach Public Library Central Library 4100 Va Beach Blvd Va Beach VA 2345^ -,-*> VoL DC No. 1 Jan. - Mar. 1991 The Soutbside Virgmian The Southside Vtginian, published since 1983, is owned and operated by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, S. Kathryn Hooper, and Christopher M. Hooper, P. O. Box 3684, Richmond, VA 23235. Prior to 1990, The Southside Virginian was owned and operated by J. C Kolbe and L H. HarL It is published quarterly, with issues appearing in Januaiy, April, July, and August 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. Please inform us, 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 The Southside Virginian, solicits unpublished source material of genealogical and historical significance to researchers of Southside Virginia which includes the counties of Princess Anne, Norfolk, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, Prince George, Chesterfield, Dinwiddle, Powhatan, Greensville, Amelia, Nottoway, Brunswick, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Charlotte, Halifax, Henry, Pittsyh^ania, Buckingham, Bedford, Campbell, Appomattox, and Franklin. Efforts are made to balance the material published so that the greatest coverage of the geographical area can be achieved. All materials submitted for pubUcation should be well documented and be factually accurate. Every effort is made to check submitted materials for accuracy and originaUty, but neither the owners or staff of The Southside Virginian can assume responsibiUty for errors on the part of its contributors. Corrections of proved 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 pubUc 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 a Packard-Bell 80286 computer utilizing WordPerfect 5.1, DrawPerfectl.O, Page-Power, and PC-OCR software. Camera-ready typeset output is provided on an Alps LPX600 300 DPI laser printer. Scanning and optical character recognition are performed on an AT&T SC-60 200/400 DPI scanner. Camera-ready copy is produced on Hammermill Papers Laser-Plus paper. THE SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIAN A JOURNAL OF GENEALOGY AND HISTORY p. O. Box 3684, Richmond, VA 23235 CXDNTENTS Vol. IX No. 1 • Jan. - Mar. 1991 Editorial 2 Announcements 3 William Foreman of Surry County 4 Mary Lee Barnes A Surry County Colonial Church Site 10 Doris Y. Stone Fees Due in the County of Amelia, 1770-1771 12 Lyndon H. Hart "Marllx)rough" [Prince George Co.] 13 Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis Loose Wills of Prince George County before 1865 16 Anne Bradbury Peebles Randolph White of Dinwiddle County 24 Thomas D. White Marriage Bonds 1816-1824 [Prince George Co.] 26 Anne Bradbury Peebles The Will of John Hall the Elder of Abingdon Parish [Franklin Co.] 29 Roben Y. Clay Is There a Will Extant? 31 Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis Some Births and Deaths in Sussex County 33 Christine L. Gerbel Burials in Salem Methodist Church Cemetery [Prince George Co.] 34 Christine L. Gerbel Word-Processor vs Computer 37 Christopher M. Hooper Queries 38 Guidelines for Publication 42 Index 44 copyright ©1991 - The Southside Virginian EDITORIAL Welcome to a new era for The Southside Virginian !!! As you have already noticed, we have changed the size and format of the magazine. This is in an effort to make the magazine more manageable to read, but it also saves printing and postage costs and allows us to maintain lower subscription rates. With our computer typesetting, we are maintaining the volume of material published in previous issues (actually expanding it) but making it more readable by employing standardized publishing techniques used in the magazine industry. The readability of The Southside Virginian is important, but what most of you are concerned about is content. We are endeavoring to provide a wider spectrum of materials than has appeared in the past. We will also try to cover areas of Southside Virginia that have received httle attention. We are attempting to balance each issue with respect to the types of material presented. Hopefully, the index appearing in each issue will make The Southside Virginian an even better reference tool. A word now about our subscription renewal process. As has been the case in the past, we will supply a renewal notice and return envelope in Issue 4 of each volume. Please take the time to fill out the renewal and return it to us in a timely manner. This not only assures you of receiving The Southside Virginian without interruption, but helps us cut down on postage costs in sending out renewal notices. Also, if you wait until after the first issue is sent before renewing, we must pay extra postage to send it to you, as we lose our bulk rate advantage in individual mailings. This is why we have to charge more for the back issues which are available. We have some exciting ideas in mind in our plans for The Southside Virginian. We need your feedback and suggestions on topics of research, articles you would like to see, etc. The Southside Virginian exists for YOU, our readers. We will try to be responsive to your needs and requests. HAPPY NEW YEAR, 1991 Chris Hooper Pubhcations Manager Page 2 The Southside Virginian, Vol. IX No. 1 ANNOUNCEMENTS Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. is offering subscribers of The Soutbside Virginian a 10% discount on Tidewater Virginia Families by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis (1990), 716 pp., cloth, illus., index, $67.50 (with disc.) + $2.50 handling. This is the "best seller" work which has received great praise by many genealogists in other publications. The discount applies through March 15, 1991. Orders may be placed through the publisher; Dept. VA, 1001 N. Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202-3897. CaU 1-800-727-6687. The following new books or reprints have been announced by Genealogical Publisbdng Co., Inc. and may be ordered from them at the above listed address. Louise Pledge Heath Foley, Early Virginia Families Along the James River - Charles City County - Prince George County, (reissued 1990) 211 pp, index, maps, cloth. $25.00 + $2.50 handling. The author abstracted the land records from the fourteen volumes of patent books for the period 1632-1732, extracting the data relevant to the counties of interest. A supplemental section contains the quit rent rolls for 1704-1705. Louise Pledge Heath Foley, Early Virginia Families Along the James River - James City County - Surry County, (1990) 170 pp, index, maps, cloth. $25.00 -I- $2.50 handling. The author abstracted the land records from the fourteen volumes of patent books for the period 1632-1732, extracting the data relevant to the counties of interest. A supplemental section contains the quit rent rolls for 1704-1705. Virginia G. Pedigo and Lewis G. Pedigo, History of Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia, (1933, repr. 1990) 400 pp, index, illus, cloth. $35.00 -I- $2.50 handling. The author provides a history of Patrick and Henry Counties and 110 of the early families. Included are transcriptions of land grants and patents. Mrs. Watson Winslow, History of Perquimans County [North Carolina], (1931, repr. 1990) 488 pp, index, illus, cloth. $35.00 + $2.50 handling. This volume is rich in primary source materials as it is comprised mainly of abstracts of deeds from 1681 to the Revolutionary War period. Perquimans was an original North Carolina precinct with very close ties to Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, and Isle of Wight counties of Virginia. Rev. Jethro Rumple, A History of Rowan County, North Carolina, (1881, repr. 1990) 434 pp, index, illus, cloth. $30.00 + $2.50 handling. This volume is based on official courthouse records, private documents, and personal recollections. Twenty-four North Carolina counties and all of Tennessee have been formed from the original area of Rowan County. The Southside Virginian, Vol. IX No. 1 Page 3 SuTTij County A Biographical Sketch WILLIAM FOREMAN of Suny County, Virgima Submitted by Mary Lee Barnes William Foreman of Surry County, Virginia 1654-1702, assumed to be the progenitor of the line of Foremans in Edgecombe County, North Carolina in the 18th century, is first recorded in Surry County as William Foreman, a servant of "James Matthews, planter, who sold to Richard Merydale, certain possessions, including stock, right and claims in and to his servants and their services, viz; William Savage and William Foreman for his term [6 years], all to be paid at some convenient place or upon his own plantation called and known as Matthews Mount, within one quarter of a mile from James River where a ship or sallop may safely come and ride. " Witnesses: Sach Brewster and Blu Pdtway.