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Poe and Bradley Families

 

Introduction: The connection between the Bradley and Poe family is difficult to decipher. Almost certainly there is a relationship through marriage.  Perhaps the wife of the William Poe found in Caroline County, VA in the latter quarter of the 18th Century is married to a Bradley, daughter of Elizabeth Bradley.

 

 

Title:

Caroline County, Virginia order book / abstracted and compiled by John Frederick Dorman

Author:

Dorman, John Frederick

Publisher:

Washington : The Compiler, s.d.-

Collation:

v. ; 28 cm.

Note:

Indexes.

Note:

Library holdings: 1732-1770.

Subject:

Caroline Co., Virginia - Court records

 

Benjamin Poe, land

 

Page 159 [10 Oct. 1734]

Benja. Poe acknowledged his deeds of lease and release of land indented to John Bradley.

 

 

Benjamin Poe, in suit

Page 479 [12 May 1738]

Suit on the attachment. William Daniel agt. The estate of James Hearn. It’s considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover 771 pounds of tobacco. The constable made return he executed the attachment in the hands of Samuel Edwards, John Powell, Benja. Poe, John Bradley, Phillip Tinsley, John Beasley, Chas. Beasley, John Robinson, Josias King, William Watson and Daniel Johnson. Charles Beasley declared he has in his hands belonging to Hern 117 pounds of tobacco. It’s ordered he pay the same to Daniel and that the other persons pay to Daniel what shall appear (before William Taliaferro Gent.) to be in their hands.

 

 

 

Simon Poe, plaintiff

p. 526 [9 March 1739]

Action of trespass. Simon Poe agt. Philip Herndon. Jury, Wm. Southworth, Francis Bearding, Timo. Chandler, Oliver Towles, William Lawson, Thos. Forson, Bryant Edmondson, Saml. Norment, Henry Burk, John Bradley, John Clark, and Peter Claybrook, find for the plaintiff 20 shillings sterling. Wm Lawson, foreman. And the court being of opinion that the battery is well and sufficiently proved, it is considered that the plaintiff recover the said 20 shillings sterling.

 

 

William Poe, administer of estate of

Rebecca Bradley

Elizabeth Bradley

 

Page 198/9 Court 11th November 1779

The Last Will and Testament of Rebecca Bradley deced. was proved by the Oaths of two witnesses and ordered to be recorded. Peyton Stern, the Executor therein named having refused to take upon him the execution thereof. On motion of William Poe who took the Oath prescribed by Law. Certificate is granted him for obtaining Letters of Administration on the said Estate with the Will annexed. Bond acknowledged and ordered to be recorded

 

Richard Ship, Peyton Stern, Richard Ship JUNR and Richard Micou or any three of the, being first sworn are appointed to appraise the Estate of Eliza. Bradley, deceased, according to Law.

 

 

 

Title:

Caroline County, Virginia court records : probate and other records from the court order and minute books / Kimberly Curtis Campbell

Author:

Campbell, Kimberly Curtis

Publisher:

Athens, GA : Iberian, 1999-

Collation:

v. ; 28 cm.

Note:

1781-1799 ; 3. 1800-1804

 

 

September 1794

From the Fork Road at Trap, [The Trap was the tavern located between Port Royal and Bowling Green. . . ] over Stern’s Mill to the road leading by Meeting House, Mark Bowler, Jr. appointed Overseer on which the hands of William Poe, Sarah Bradley, Mark Bradley, Mark Bowler, William Clift and Samuel McGehee are to work.

 

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