Poe
Family in Virginia
Research
by county 1850
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Samuel Poe of Essex County,
Virginia, who died in 1725.
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 Robert
died in 1722 and records name Katherine are contemporaneous with no indication
of their relation.
Benjamin Poe born
before 1705 First appears in July 1726. May have died in Amherst County, VA in
1785 (or family moved there). Family continued to Franklin County, KY
William
Poe born
before 1705 First appears October 1726. Moved to Culpeper County, VA in 1737.
Samuel Poe born
before 1712 First appears in 1733. Possibly died in Caroline County, VA between
1759 and 1765.
Simon
Poe born
1707/8-1793 First appears in 1737. Birth and death dates based on
newspaper obituary from Chatham County, NC.
Marson Poe born
before 1725 First appears considerably later in 1749. Died 13 Aug 1782
Spotsylvania County, VA. Descendants spell name Powe. His son became a
prominent stateman in South Carolina (Cheraw District)
DNA
of descendants does not support that this man is related to the other Poe of
Essex/Caroline County.
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)