Poe
Family in Virginia
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Samuel Poe of Essex County, Virginia who died in 1725, what we know
about him
Near contemporaries of Samuel
Poe in Essex County. There is no clear evidence any of them were sons of Samuel
Poe.
Robert Poe / Katherine Poe Essex County, Virginia. Robert died in
1722 and records naming Katherine are contemporaneous – no indication of their
relation.
Benjamin Poe
born before 1705. First appears in 1726. May have died in
Amherst Co. VA in 1785 (or family moved there).
William
Poe born
before 1711. First appears in 1726.
Moved to Culpeper County, VA in 1737
Samuel Poe born before
1712. First appears in 1733. Possibly
died in Caroline Co. between 1759 and 1765
Simon
Poe born
1707/8-1793 First appears in 1737. Dates based on newspaper obituary from North
Carolina
Marsom Poe born
before 1725 First appears considerably later in
1749. Died 13 Aug 1782 Spotsylvania Co. Descendants spell name Powe.
DNA
of descendants does not support that this man is related to the other Poe of
Essex/Caroline County. His son became a prominent stateman in South Carolina
(Cheraw District)
Families with early
connections to the Essex / Caroline County Poe families include:
History of Old Rappahannock, Essex County and Caroline
County
Early Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex
Index to
Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia 1655-1900 by Eva
Eubank Wilkerson.
Published by Whittet & Shepperson,
Richmond, Virginia, 1953.
No Poe, Browning or Sutton listed.
Virginia, Essex County:
February 1695 ? 1699; 1699 ?
1702. Ruth and Sam Sparacio, editors. Order Book
Abstracts
No Poe listed
Virginia Quit Rent Roll
1704
Virginia Tax Records from the
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The William and Mary Quarterly, and
Tyler’s Quarterly
Baltimore. Genealogical
Publishing Company, Inc. 1983
Virginia Quit
Rent Rolls, 1704
Essex County. Poe, Samll 800 acres
The same book
includes this section - Essex County: An Annotated Copy of the Rent Roll of
1704
The annotations
include whom the landowner married and their date of death if the researcher
could determine it. As an example, this annotation states: John Battaile (d. 1706; married Catherine Taliaferro and
Elizabeth Smith)
The entry for
Samuel Poe includes only one annotation ? the date of
death, since that is all the court records reveal.
On page 63:
Samuel Poe (d. 1725)