VIRGINIA CHANCERY CASES - GREENSVILLE COUNTY

Containing Vaughan Surname Before 1850

Cases are color coded for priority of research. All cases should be research, but sometimes time and expenses dictate we must choose the most promising cases.

Cases highlighted in Green are Vaughan vs Vaughan, cases that appear to involve a Vaughan Estate or a few more cases that look promising.

Cases highlighted in Blue are cases involving an estate of other surnames that are not already highlighted in Green.

Some cases can be searched online. For those cases, notes have been added as the case files are reviewed as well as other cases researched on microfilm or as originals.

Greensville County

Case #

County

Petitioner(s)

Respondent(s)

Surname(s)

Will(s)

Availability

1785-002

Greensville

William Myrick

James Vaughan and his wife Ann, Exx of William Moore

Mason, Moore, More, Myrick, Vaughan

5 Feb 1781 William Moore of Sussex co VA

24 Jun 1784 Petition re Contract Dispute over Oct 1782 contract for 130 acres of land. William Moore d. 20 Jun 1781. James Vaughan m. Ann Moore, widow of William Moore 13 Dec 1781.

1788-001

Greensville

William Vaughan Et al

Exx of Pierce Vaughan

Vaughan

Scanned

March 1787 Petition by William, Louisa, Priscilla, Rebeckah, and Thomas, Dixon, Joel & Joshua, minors, for the division of assets against their mother Faithy who consented. Dower awarded and division Made 26 May 1787.

1849-012

Greensville

Admr of Richard Hill Et al

CUR(S) OF William Hill Et al

Bland, Booth, Brodnax, Cabaniss, Cary, Chambliss, Coe, Crawford, Edwards, Elliott, Epes, Field, Foreman, Foulkes, Foulks, Fowlkes, Freeman, Gee, Gholson, Graves, Griswold, Hamlet, Hamlin, Harris, Hicks, Hill, Hunt, Irby, Jones, Kernachan, Long, Maffit, Maffitt, Malone, Matthews, McClusty, Meade, Mitchell, Muse, Neal, Osborne, Parham, Peter, Rembert, Roane, Roberts, Ruffin, Searcy, Simmons, Stevens, Sturdivant, Telfair, Terrill, Tucker, Vaughan, Wade, Ward, Watkins, White, Wren, Wrenn

1820 Henry Hill of Sussex Co VA

1830 William Hill of Sussex Co VA

74 pages. Very Complex. Mary Hill, descendant of Richard Hill m. William Vaughan. Henry Hill d. in 1820. He left his slaves to his wife Elizabeth, for life and upon her death to be given their freedom. She d. in 1845, out of state. Although the slaves had their freedom, their issue did not and needed to be distributed through intestacy. Henry Hill had no children. He only had a brother William Hill who d. in 1830. William was entitled to the increase (descendants) of the slaves. William’s will was contested and found invalid. The parties reached a consent decree. Richard Hill was an heir of William Hill and was deceased. [Stopped reading after about 10 pages.]

1846-027

Greensville

Peebles Hall & Co] Et al

Benjamin D Chapman Trst Et al

Adams, Blunt, Blunt & Cooper], Chapman, Cooper, Daniel, Daniel & Foster], Dugger, Eppes, Epps, Epps & Lloyd], Foster, Hall, Harwell, Lloyd, MacLin, P W Walker & Co], Peebles, Peebles Hall & Co], Stewart, Turner, Vaughan, Walker, William H & P W Walker]

Compiled By: David H. Robertson, 159 Hickory St., Roswell, GA 30075 davidhr@hushmail.com