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 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html