Hello Everyone,
 
I am really coming in late to the discussion, and apologize if I did not  
save all of the emails and someone mentioned this.   In addition to  the 
various suggestions made by others regarding "missing deeds", I will mention  
that when I stopped at the Powhatan County courthouse for a couple of hours  
"to kill" on my way from Richmond to Charlottesville, I found a court 
document  book that consisted of a lot of recordings of various documents not 
recorded in  their proper volumes, covering a wide period of time.   Among them  
were many deeds.   I don't know if there is a similar volume for  Richmond, 
but this one was shelved at the time way at the end of court orders ca  late 
1800s.   My first trip to that courthouse where I have lots of  ancestors, 
and I was more or less just looking around, filling in holes in my  
documentation as I knew I'd have good pickings there.
 
The deed in question, which was a godsend of the minor victory sorts that I 
 like when I know I'm probably not going to break any brick walls that day, 
was  ca 1810s (from memory), in which one ancestor Lipscomb Wash deeds as 
gifts  slaves to his two daughters -- slaves that he received upon the death 
in North  Carolina (county unspecificied) of a heretofor unbeknownst to me 
son John L.  Wash (L standing for Lipscomb I speculate).  I knew about the 
two  daughters, but this seemed to indicate there were probably only the two  
daughters.  
 
Good Luck!
 
Best Regards,   Janet (Baugh) Hunter

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