CRADDOCK, OBEDIENCE, 1816. Will, dated January 2, 1816; gives her interest in the Kentucky land to her brother Henry, and sisters Marthey and Catherine. Amelia W. B. 8, p. 459.

CRADDOCK, RICHARD, 1785. Will dated Feb. 8, 1785; appoints his brother John and William Cross executors and guardians. Sons, James, Richard, William Cross Craddock, Asa, Claiborne, William Claiborne and Robert; Gives to William Cross Craddock three hundred acres on "Tomerhawk Branch" and "Flatt Creek"; leaves land in "Kaintucke" to son William and three younger sons (not named); mentions Jane and Mary. Amelia W. B. 3, p. 329.

CRADDOCK, THOMAS, 1820. Will dated September 17, 1820. Estate to sisters Marthey and Elizabeth Hamblen. Amelia W. B. 9, p. 198.

CRADDOCK, WILLIAM, 1741. Deed. William Craddock, of Amelia County, to James Powell Cocke, of Henrico County, land on Flatt Creek and Walnut Branch. Amelia D. B. 1, p. 225.

CRADDOCK, WILLIAM, 1748. Deed from William Craddock, of Amelia, to Mary, Judith, Richard and William Cross Craddock, his children, for land in Amelia bought of Atwood and others. Amelia D. B. 4, p. 36.

CRADDOCK, WILLIAM CROSS, 1794. Deed from William Cross Craddock, of Amelia, (attorney for Robert Craddock, of Kentucky), to Thomas Comer, for land on Church Road adjoining Henry Anderson. Nottoway D. B. 1, p. 571.

CRADDOCK, WILLIAM CROSS, 1795. Will dated March 7, 1795, recorded July, 1795. His friends, James Hill, George Baldwin and Charles Craddock, executors and guardians, gave bond for 15,000 dollars, with Matthew Robertson Parham, David Booker and John Townes, Jr., sureties. Sons, John Hill, Samuel, James, Thomas, and Henry; daughters, Marthey, Catey (Bass), Fanny, Obedience, Elizabeth Hamblen, wife of Abell (?) Jackson Hamblen, Mary, wife of Joseph Folkes. Amelia W. B. 5, p. 177.

CRENSHAW, DAVID, 1797. Deed from David Crenshaw to Peter Randolph for 570 acres on southside Little Nottoway (at Iron Bridge). Plat recorded; only one in Deed. Book 1. Nottoway D. B. 1, p. 635.

CROSS, 1792. Deed from Cross and wife to Irby shows that Stephen and John Cock had a mill pond on Little Nottoway River near Batt's Bridge. Nottoway D. B. 1, p. 237.

CROW, JOHN, 1748. Deed from John Crow, of Goochland, to John Watson, Jr., of Hanover, conveying land partly in Goochland and partly in Hanover. Goochland D. B. 5, p. 79.

CROW, JOHN, 1745. Deed from John Crow, of Goochland, planter, conveying to John Watson Jr., of same county, land lying in Goochland and Hanover. Goochland D. B. 5, p. 442.

DALBY, WILLIAM, 1796. Deed from William Dalby, of the parish of St. Martin, Hanover County, to John Harper, of

Amelia County, for land on Little Sailor Creek in Nottoway, adjoining John Dalby; the same land devised by his father Nightingale Dalby, deceased. Nottoway D. B. 1.

DAVIS, ASA, 1796. Deed from Asa Davis and wife to Nathaniel Lee, of Petersburg, to one hundred acres of land on which said Davis lived, beginning at the "rode" adjoining the land of Colonel Samuel Sherwin's estate and along Sherwin's line to the creek adjoining Ranard Anderson's line, etc. Nottoway D. B. 1, p. 559.

DAVIS, JAMES, 1789. Deed from James Davis, of Charlotte, to Asa Davis, of Nottoway, 105 acres between the Carolina road and a branch of Winningham's Creek; speaks of Davis's store and Samuel Sherwin's line, as bounds. Nottoway D. B. 1, p. 10.

DENNIS, RICHARD, of Rawleigh Parish, Amelia County, 1772, conveys to her grandson Richard Pryor, son of John Pryor, of Nottoway Parish, a negro girl "Cate" and her increase. Amelia D. B. 11, p. 462.

DENNIS, RICHARD, SR., of Rawleigh Parish, Amelia County, 1772, conveys to John Pryor, of Nottoway County, in consideration of natural love for said Pryor, his son-in-law, land beginning at "Shorts Corner" on Cellar Creek. Amelia D. B. 11, p. 451.

DUPUY, (CAPTAIN) JAMES, 1823. Will. Executors, James P. and James H. Dupuy. Sets apart, along with other lands to pay debts, the tract containing Jennings Ordinary, on Namoseen Road, etc; speaks of adjoining Robert Dickinson's estate and the tract bought of Peter R. Bland; intersecting line of Walton's tract; also of joining T. G. Bacon's field and Mrs. Susan Cook's dower tract. Daughter Elvira, not then of age (afterwards Mrs. Eggleston) 250 acres adjoining the main road above Jennings Ordinary, Lodwick Brown, Mrs. Roberts's dower and along Lumpkin's path to "my line of Basset Watson's tract," striking across to Pulliam's Road, etc.; daughter Nancy L. Jeffress (wife of Elisha Jeffress) already advanced her share in 1804; daughter Polly P. Dickinson already advanced her share; as also sons Asa, John P. and William J. Dupuy; daughter Elizabeth G. Osborne (dead) and grand-daughter Elizabeth C. Osborne; bequest to son Joseph; speaks of Deep Creek and Cabin Branch; son James given 528 acres of the house tract. Nottoway W. B. 5, p. 107. Note: Charley Dickinson, of Hollins, Virginia, son of W. R. Dickinson, told me Elisha Jeffress built Purnell Dickinson's (his father) house.

DUPUY, JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, 1790. Will. Wife, Mary; sons, John, James and Peter; daughter, Magdaline Watkins. Bought place he resided upon from John Garrant; gives to Peter land devised him (testator) by his father, also land he (testator) bought of William Watson. Nottoway W. B. 1, p. 37.

DUPUY, MARY (Widow of John B. Dupuy), 1793. Will. Nephews, Milton, Samuel, Waller and Zachary Ford, Thomas,

Robert Geers and Christopher Dejarnette; nieces, Mary Overton, Lucy Morriss, Ann Ford and Betty Ford Crenshaw. Nottoway W. B. 1, p. 83.

DUPUY, PETER, 1773. Will. Witnesses, Bartholomew Dupuy, John Maddox, John Dupuy. To son, John Bartholomew Dupuy, thirty pounds; to son Peter, one negro; to son James, "half the tract of land which I am now possessed with, I desire he may have it at the lower end joining the lands of Abraham Forrest and Josiah Hundley," also a negro. To daughters, Ann and Martha Jackson, and five grandchildren, Elijah, Anthony, Charles, Ann and Elizabeth Hundley, eighty pounds to be divided among them; lends to wife, Judith Dupuy, half the land on which he dwells, for life, and at her death to John Bartholomew Dupuy; also lends her three negroes. Amelia W. B. 2, p. 237.

DUPUY, PETER, 1798. Deed from Peter Dupuy, of the county of Powhatan, to Nicholas Vaughan, conveyance of land on Ellis fork of Nottoway River, adjoining lands of Nicholas Vaughan, William Hundley, John Hurt, Curtis Jackson and Williams Jackson. Nottoway D. B. 2, p. 17.

DYSON, FRANCIS, SR., 1830. Will. Executors, son-in-law John Dyson, and son Francis Dyson. To son Francis (not then 21) tract of land on headwaters Little Creek, called the Hall Front (?), etc.; to son John tract purchased of William Jones, lying on West Creek and attached to tract purchased of Richard Jones, etc.; daughter, Elizabeth Webster; to daughter Amelia G. Jackson, tract purchased of Daniel Verser, Sr.; daughter Mary W. Jeter; daughter Louisa Dyson; left wife considerable estate. Nottoway D. B. 6, p. 187.

DYSON, WILLIAM, 1803. Will dated 1795, probated 1803. Lends wife, Mary, upper half of tract bought of Thomas G. Peachy on Deep Creek; gives son, Francis, tract bought of Stephen Hall (called in my time "Linnwood"; see will of Francis Dyson); to son Thomas, lower half of tract bought of Peachy; daughter, Mary Winfree. Nottoway W. B. 2, p. 3.

DYSON, WILLIAM, 1803. Fiduciary account of William Dyson's executors, 1803, shows that Captain Daniel Verser married Elizabeth Dyson; also that negroes belonging to the estate, about which there was suit in Richmond, were brought from Daniel Dyson's in Chesterfield. Items: paid John Jones for preaching funeral sermon, one pound, 4 shillings; paid Edmund Maynard for application of the stone to negro bit by mad-dog, 2 pounds, 5 shillings, 4 pence. Nottoway W. B. 3.

EGGLESTON, JOSEPH, 1791. Will dated 1791, probated 1793; executor, son, Joseph Eggleston; surety, Daniel Hardaway. Son, Joseph; daughters, Jane Segar Cocke, Ann Hardaway, Mary Meade and Elizabeth Archer, wife of John Archer; granddaughter, Judith Eggleston Cocke, and grandson, Seth Hodijah Meade. Directs that he be buried at "Grub Hill." Wife to live

in retirement at Kennon's if she desires. She had an annuity of thirty pounds from Captain William Bentley. Amelia W. B. 4, p. 340 (?).

ELLETT, JOHN, 1736. Deed from John Ellett to John Watson, Jr., conveying land in St. James Parish, Goochland, as per patent of March 17, 1736. Goochland D. B. 3, p. 523.

EPPES, EDWARD, JR., 1754. Deed from Edward Eppes, Jr., of Prince George, to William Kennon, of Chesterfield; land on Old Town Creek, being lands given Lewis Eppes, father of Edward, by will of George Archer, dated 1729. Witness, Francis Epes, Jr. Chesterfield D. B. 2, p. 195.

EPES, ELIZABETH, 1678. Will. Executors, her son-in-law, Richard Kennon and Francis Epes; witnesses, Mary Randolph, Elizabeth Cocke, Anne Isham. Two papers proved at the same court, held at Varina, 1678, dated and executed at different times during that year. She lived at Bermuda Hundred; widow first of William Worsham, and last of Colonel Francis Epes; children by the Epes marriage, William, Littleberry, and Mary Epes; names her daughter, Elizabeth Kennon, daughter Mary Worsham, sons John Worsham and Charles (presumably Worsham). Henrico County Court, Minutes, 1678.

EPES, COLONEL FRANCIS, 1678. Verbal will, proven in court by the testimony of witnesses who were with him in his last illness. Richard Cocke and William Randolph testified that he wished his estate divided between his four children and wife, and that he hoped his brother would settle one of them at "Causons" and another at... (a place not made out by me. Randolph said his conversation with the Colonel took place a day or two before his death while he was lying dangerously wounded (at his house, one of the others had said.) Henrico County Court, Minutes, 1678.

EPPES, FRANCIS, of Bermuda Hundred. Will dated 1733, probated 1734. Devised large tracts of land in Henrico, Chesterfield and Goochland ("Longfield," "Winterpock," "Skinquarter," etc.); sons, Francis, Richard and William; wife, Sarah. Henrico Deeds and Wills, Vol. 2, p. 459. (His son Francis died shortly after, without marrying; will at Henrico).

EPES, FRANCIS, 1772. Will. Will. Executors, brother Peter Epes, son Freeman, friends Stephen Cocke and Richard Jones, son of Colonel Richard Jones; further administration granted Edmund Wills and William Fitzgerald, 1817, with 40,000 dollars security bond. Lived in Nottoway Parish; mother, Sarah Epes; wife, Mary Epes; children, Freeman, Sarah, Martha, Francis, Mary, Thomas, Lucy and John; devised to son Freeman, among other things, "Causons" in Prince George and land adjoining on Cattail Run, also 900 acres on Joseph's Swamp in same county, also small tract on Cox road in Dinwiddie and lot in Blandford town, (the last two willed to him by Thomas Williams); to Francis 993 acres on Whetstone Creek, in Amelia,

bought of Jordan Anderson, also 1100 acres on Rough Creek in Charlotte, bought of Thomas Williams, and patented in decedent's name, adjoining lands of Peyton Randolph, Edmund Ruffin, John Seddon, etc.; to son Thomas, 1452 acres on Nottoway River, Amelia, bought of John Bowery; to son John 400 acres whereon testator lived and given him by his father, also 300 acres bought of Henry Hasten, 104 acres bought of William Gamblin, but patented in his own name, 397 acres bought of Thomas Bowery, also 387 on Flatt Creek in Lunenburg, bought of Colonel David and Peter Garland. Amelia W. B. 4, p. 136.

EPPES, FRANCIS, of Chesterfield, 1772. Deed to John Osborne for one lot in Gatesville. Chesterfield D. B. 7, p. 81.

EPPES, FRANCIS, 1775. Deed from Francis Eppes, of Charles City County, to Gibbs, for land in Chesterfield, on road from Courthouse to said Eppes's plantation on Appomattox River. Chesterfield D. B. 8, p. 50.

EPPES, FRANCIS, 1778. Deed from Francis Eppes, of Charles City, and John Hylton, of Chesterfield, executors of John Hylton, of Chesterfield, whose will was probated 1773, conveying land to Nathaniel Friend. Chesterfield D. B. 8, p. 305.

EPES, FRANCIS, 1790. Division of estate of Francis Epes, by commissioners of county court, John Doswell, William Irby, William Crenshaw and Stith Hardaway. To Mrs. Mary Epes, west part of Couzins tract, 200 acres; to William Fitzgerald, in right of his wife, Sarah, east part of same 200 acres; to Freeman Epes, north part of "Nottoway" tract, 413 acres; to Edward Wills, in right of his wife, Lucy, land in Lunenburg on Flat Rock Creek, 520 acres; to Francis Fitzgerald, in right of his wife, Mary, east part of tract in Charlotte on Rough Creek, 548 acres; to John Epes, west part of same, 558 acres; to Thomas Epes, south part of the "Nottoway" tract, 561 acres. Good many slaves divided also. Amelia W. B. 4, p. 274.

EPPES, FRANCIS, 1796-7. Deed from Francis Eppes and Elizabeth, his wife, of Chesterfield, conveying the Bermuda Hundred tract of land (756 acres), lots in Bermuda Hundred Town, and another tract all in Chesterfield, to their son, John Wayles Eppes, in consideration of his marriage with Mary Jefferson, daughter of Thomas Jefferson, reciting that Mr. Jefferson had already conveyed "Pantops," in Albemarle (819 acres) and thirty-one slaves. Chesterfield W. B. 14, p. 32 and 258. [Possibly this should be D. B.]

EPPES, FRANCIS, 1802. Deed from Anderson and wife to Woodlief Eppes, Irby Eppes and Francis Eppes, children and heirs of Francis Eppes, deceased, and Mary Eppes, his widow, and John Royall, administrator of said Francis Eppes, conveying land on Tommy Hitton Creek. Nottoway D. B. 2, p. 330.

EPPES, FRANCIS, 1808 and 1810. Will. Account of sales aggregating 3822 pounds, personal estate of Francis Eppes, at Holcomb's, alias Randolph's Tavern, in Amelia (where several