Re: Sir William vs Stephen William
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Re: Sir William vs Stephen William
Betty Glenn 2/15/12
stephen daniel smithers is not a smithers his real name is strphen d trulane taken from his daughters marr. record wythe co court house. beuford smithers was a free man of color and a black smith and worked between franklin co. and wythe co.va.as for sir william i found him and robertin a libery on peters creek ( roanoke ) va. stephen sr. was in the rolv. war his term 7 years as segant found him 1781 tax records of rockbridge co va. called buflo hills he enlisted in the va. 8th reg in fencastle va. after his service he was awarded 466 aces of land . land warrant # 1628.year 1783 . as for rev. safordlandrethhe is my mothers first couisons husband. i took my papers to my first cousin to look at he let saford copie it and then saford copie writed it. what saford did not know was a lot of was wrong. ive have sence figured it out my line stephen and nancy then sarah, george washington, charles henry, effie marr. rufus horton, lincoln