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Up Date on Research
                By Bobby L. Floyd
                August 20, 2005
                  Other Clues are emerging.

1.      In the Will of Edmund Fitz Patrick the father of Mildred (Wife of John M. Fitz Patrick) written on 9 April 1833 (Probated 5 August 1833) say: "To my Children, Patsy Harris, Thomas Patrick, John Patrick, Peter Patrick, and Mildred Patrick I have heretofore given all that I intend for them. Edmund was a wealthy person (per census records in 1810 he owned 34 slaves) and in his Will he list nine children still living.  He implies that he has given Mildred something already. Mildred and John Fitz Patrick were married Oct 5 1830. I believe this is the dowry of Mildred that financed the Period Two of the house and also it was her influence to make the house more refined and up to date.

2.      In reviewing the Dendrochronological Study by Herman J. Heikkenen, Ph.D. in August, 2002 he says The timbers used to construct the first floor of Fitzpatrick House, Period 1, were hewed and sawed from trees felled after the growing season of 1825, yet prior to the growing season of 1826. If the timbers were cured over the winter then the house construction could have started in 1826 or latter.

3.      John M. Fitz Patrick would have turned 21 on June 3, 1825. The legal age to own land by the law at the times in Virginia (Hening Statue of Virginia).

4.      The first time any records of John Fitz Patrick owning land is in the Tax Records of 1826. John paid tax on 582 acres in 1826 and at his death on 17th May 1880 he owned 1411 acres as per his Will.

5.      On January 1824 the court ordered that the land survey be done so that all remaining property of David Fitz Patrick could be divided equally between the three children.

6.      Kathy Liston (Archeologist) a friend who is helping me with my research found in records that John F Patrick value of land owned in 1850 was $6000 and had 34 slaves. In 1860 the value of real estate was $10,000, Value of Personal estate was $35,000 and he had 40 slaves.

7.       John's mother Sarah B.M. Smith (Fitz Patrick) died in 1852 and was very wealthy and left everything to her two remaining children. This falls within the estimated time of Period III. Is there a correlation? I don't know.

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