General Notes

(Research):Note:
Information from "Lost Tribes of North Carolina" bt Worth S
. Ray, published in
1947, has a land grant in 1683 in Bristol Parish. 10 year
s later, he had
deserted land and it was patented to Hanry Randolph (Boo
k 6 of Virginia LAnd
Office). Nearly 100 years later 06-17-1769, a later Henry R
andolph, in his will,
made Major Peter Poythress and John Gilliam, Sr along wit
h John Gilliam, Jr. his
executors. In that long interim, a marriage had taken plac
e between the Gilliams
and the Poythresses.