Re: Lucy Maclin Hardaway
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In reply to:
Lucy Maclin Hardaway
Evalyn MASON 11/08/06
Dear Ms. Harris:
Perhaps it may be best for you to look in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and the City of Petersburg for a marriage between Lucy Hardaway and a Mayhew.The City of Petersburg would have had two courts, the Circuit Court and the Hustings Court.Lucy Hardaway would have been the daughter of Major John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County.As you may know, Dinwiddie County is a "burned county" and most records were burned during the War Between the States.However, some records do survive, and there are several references in Dinwiddie County Chancery Order Book One to a chancery suit involving Lucy Mahew (pages 26, 33, 39, and 58).The full style of the matter was: Frederick M. Hardaway, Executor of John Hardaway, Deceased v. Henry S. Hardaway; Lucy S. Mahew, and William, John, Sydney, Jane, Signora, and Helen Mahew, infants; William E. Hardaway; Thomas Rogers, and Mary Ann, his wife; Eliza Lundie and her infant children William, Alexander and Susan Lundie; and John C. Hardaway.
You may wish to check the chancery index and the Library of Virginia web site, as I understand that they have uncoveredmore chancery records from the counties.Unfortunately, this chancery suit does not identify in the orders the name of the Mahew whom Lucy Hardaway married.The last order in this chancery cause was 18 Sept 1834
T W Parson