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From: "Ann Sharp" <>
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 20:59:09 GMT
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Douglas Beahm
> I briefly looked at the database that you cited as your source for the
Willis
> family (http://www.ericjames.org/html/fam/fam41743.htm). I suggest that
you
> avoid this database as much of the early Virginia part of this family is
> incorrect. For example, Richard Willis is listed with a death date of
about
> 1717 and John Willis is listed with a death date of July 1715. Both of
these
> men left estate documents and the listed dates of death are not even
close. The
> will of John Willis was proved in July 1688 in Middlesex Co., VA. The
inventory
> of Richard Willis was recorded in February 1700 in Middlesex Co., VA.


There are two early Virginians named John Willis. The earlier will is
the one you cite for 1688, and the later one, "John Willis, Sr.," Earliest
Known progenitor of this branch of the Willis family, was probated 1715 in
Richmond County, Virginia.

Ann


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