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Accession Number 52087
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John Maynard Poythress Genealogical Notes, 1633-2012. Accession 52087. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Giff ot E. Dewayne and Leigh Wilson of Townsend, Tennessee
Processing Information
The donors of this collection, E. Dewayne and Leigh Wilson, have also funded the processing (arrangement, rehousing, organization,
cataloging and creation of the finding aid) of the entire collection through the Library of Virginia Foundation's Adopt Virginia
History Program.
Poythress , John Maynard (1934-2012) was born in Macon Georgia and graduated from Mercer University with a degree in English literature.
He was a general manager at Inland Container where he worked for 36 years. He was married to Jean Knott Poythress for 54 years and they had children.
Papers, 1633-2012, of John Maynard Poythress (1934-2012) of Louisville, Kentucky, consisting of Poythress family genealogical research material. Papers included family descendents of Francis Poythress (d. ca. 1650) who immigrated from England about 1633. Collection includes references to early colonial Virginia families,
including Francis Poythress ' daughter Jane who may have married Thomas Rolfe, so of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Research includes material referencing
family branches that settled initially in Charles City County and Prince George County, Virginia; and then later settling
in Georgia, with some branches in Alabama and North Carolina. Additional material relating to the Prince George County plantation
Flowerdew Hundred, owned by Joshua Poythress and his descendants from 1725 to 1949, is also included. Collection contains annotated books and copies of additional sources,
such as wills, deeds, censuses, and military records. Correspondence from other Poythress researchers, and extensive genealogical research notes are also included.
Unentangled-- Poythress family history (folder 1 of 5)
Box 1 Folder 2
Unentangled-- Poythress family history (folder 2 of 5)
Box 1 Folder 3
Unentangled-- Poythress family history (folder 3 of 5)
Box 1 Folder 4
Unentangled-- Poythress family history (folder 4 of 5)
Box 1 Folder 5
Unentangled-- Poythress family history (folder 5 of 5)
Box 1 Folder 6
Poythress material--Barbara P. Neal (folder 1 of 3)
Box 1 Folder 7
Poythress material--Barbara P. Neal (folder 2 of 3)
Box 1 Folder 8
Poythress material--Barbara P. Neal (folder 3 of 3)
Box 1 Folder 9
Poythress material--from Bud Poythress (folder 1 of 6)
Box 1 Folder 10
Poythress material--from Bud Poythress (folder 2 of 6)
Box 1 Folder 11
Poythress material--from Bud Poythress (folder 3 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 12
Poythress material--from Bud Poythress (folder 4 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 13
Poythress material--from Bud Poythress (folder 5 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 14
Poythress material--from Bud Poythress (folder 6 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 15
Poythress material--Earl F. Poythress (folder 1 of 3)
Box 2 Folder 16
Poythress material--Earl F. Poythress (folder 2 of 3)
Box 2 Folder 17
Poythress material--from Bud Poythress (folder 3 of 3)
Box 2 Folder 18
Poythress material--from Craig R. Scott (folder 1 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 19
Poythress material--from Craig R. Scott (folder 2 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 20
Poythress material--from Craig R. Scott (folder 3 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 21
Poythress material--from Craig R. Scott (folder 4 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 22
Poythress material--from Craig R. Scott (folder 5 of 6)
Box 2 Folder 23
Poythress material--from Craig R. Scott (folder 6 of 6)
Box 3 Folder 24
Poythress material--Barbara P. Wolfe
Box 3 Folder 25
Poythress material--Jean's Notes
Box 3 Folder 26
Poythress material--Fred Upchurch
Box 3 Folder 27
Poythress material-- Francis Poythress (volume 1)
Box 3 Folder 28
Poythress material-- Francis Poythress (volume 2)
Box 3 Folder 29
Poythress material-- Francis Poythress (volume 3)
Box 3 Folder 30
Virginia's Descendants-- Francis Poythress Family Report(folder 1 of 4)
Box 3 Folder 31
Virginia's Descendants-- Francis Poythress Family Report(folder 2 of 4)
Box 3 Folder 32
Virginia's Descendants-- Francis Poythress Family Report(folder 3 of 4)
Box 3 Folder 33
Virginia's Descendants-- Francis Poythress Family Report(folder 4 of 4)
Box 3 Folder 34
Confederate Service Records-- Poythress
Box 4 Folder 35
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-- Poythress records (folder 1 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 36
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-- Poythress records (folder 2 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 37
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-- Poythress records (folder 3 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 38
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-- Poythress records (folder 4 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 39
R. Bolling Batte Card File-- Poythress records (folder 1 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 40
R. Bolling Batte Card File-- Poythress records (folder 2 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 41
R. Bolling Batte Card File-- Poythress records (folder 3 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 42
R. Bolling Batte Card File-- Poythress records (folder 4 of 4)
Box 4 Folder 43
Flowerdew Hundred (folder 1 of 2)
Box 4 Folder 44
Flowerdew Hundred (folder 2 of 2)
Box 5 Folder 45
Virginia General--Volume 1
Box 5 Folder 46
Virginia General--Volume 2
Box 5 Folder 47
Virginia General--Volume 3
Box 5 Folder 48
Virginia General--Volume 4
Box 5 Folder 49
Virginia General--Volume 5
Box 5 Folder 50
Virginia General--Volume 6
Box 5 Folder 51
Virginia General--Volume 7
Box 6 Folder 52
Virginia General--Volume 8 (folder 1 of 3)
Box 6 Folder 53
Virginia General--Volume 8 (folder 2 of 3)
Box 6 Folder 54
Virginia General--Volume 8 (folder 3 of 3)
Box 6 Folder 55
Virginia General--Volume 9
Box 6 Folder 56
Virginia General--Volume 10 (folder 1 of 2)
Box 6 Folder 57
Virginia General--Volume 10 (folder 2 of 2)
Box 6 Folder 58
Virginia General--Volume 11
Box 6 Folder 59
Virginia General--Volume 12
Box 7 Folder 60
Georgia--Volume 1--Georgia censusus (folder 1 of 2)
Box 7 Folder 61
Georgia--Volume 1--Georgia censusus (folder 2 of 2)
Box 7 Folder 62
Georgia--Volume 2
Box 7 Folder 63
Georgia--Volume 3--Georgia Archives microfilm material on Screven County
Box 7 Folder 64
Georgia--Volume 4 (folder 1 of 2)
Box 7 Folder 65
Georgia--Volume 4 (folder 2 of 2)
Box 8 Folder 66
Georgia--Volume 5 (folder 1 of 3)
Box 8 Folder 67
Georgia--Volume 5 (folder 2 of 3)
Box 8 Folder 68
Georgia--Volume 5 (folder 3 of 3)
Box 8 Folder 69
Georgia--Volume 6 (folder 1 of 4)
Box 8 Folder 70
Georgia--Volume 6 (folder 2 of 4)
Box 8 Folder 71
Georgia--Volume 6 (folder 3 of 4)
Box 8 Folder 72
Georgia--Volume 6 (folder 4 of 4)
Box 8 Folder 73
Great Britain
Box 8 Folder 74
Adventures of Purse and Person 1607-1624/5 and Their Families
Box 8 Folder 75
Virginia Genealogical Research Guide
Box 8 Folder 76
National Genealogical Society Quarterly volume 80, number 2 Research in Georgia
Box 8 Folder 77
Descendants of Francis Epes I of Virginia , volume two, compiled and edited by John Frederick Dorman
Box 9
Ancestors and Descendants of Francis Epes I of Virginia , volume one, John Frederick Dorman
Box 9
Virginia Colonial Abstracts , series 2, volume 6, Prince George County, VA Land Patents 1666-1719 , Lindsay O. Duvall, abstractor adn compiler
Box 9
Early Virginia Families Along the James River , volume II, Charles City County-Prince George County , Louise Pledge Heath Foley, compiler
Box 9
Our All-Southern Family , Carolyn Barfield Fulghum
Box 9
A History of Burke County, Georgia 1777-1950 , Albert M. Hillhouse
Box 9
Screven County History , Dixon Hollingsworth, editor
Box 9
Georgia , Bernice McCullar
Box 9
Georgia Genealogical Gems Special Publicantion No. 48 , National Genealogical Society, Washington D.C.
Box 9
Brunswick County, Virginia 1720-1975 , Gay Neale
Box 9
The Cradle of the Republic Jamestown and James River Virginia , Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Box 9
Prince George County Virginia Miscellany 1711-1814 , Benjamin B. Weisiger III, abstractor and compiler
Box 9
Prince George County, Virginia Records 1733-1792 Abstracts of the Remaining County Record Books for the Above Period Plus
Miscellaneous Wills , Benjamin B. Weisiger, abstractor and compiler
Box 9
Prince George County, Virginia Wills and Deeds 1710-1713 , Benjamin B. Weisiger III, compiler
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Poythress 
Genealogical Notes, 1633-2012. Accession 52087. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.