Posted By:	Julia Clark
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	Subject:	Re: James Lawless I.
	Post Date:	March 27, 2007 at 13:05:12
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I was sent more research on my Loyless, and Greenwood family than almost any other line. Barry Bascum Hayes, who was a professor of history at Sam Houston State University provided me with most of my information. Complete with notes and refrences. I am aware that there is confusion about the early Loyless relationships to each other. Here is a little of what I have for James Loyles I. James was transported six times -1699, 1700, 1701, 1704, 1713, 1725! According to Mr. Hayes, any skeptic supposing the involvement of more than one James would be hard-pressed to explain away the fact that accompanying this James on all six occasions was an Elizabeth Demsey. a white slave during the 1690's of Essex,planter , William Leake, who had the county court extend her indenture in 1696 for anothe year for giving birth to a bastard. Another extensionin 1697 stipulated that she must remain in the service of Leake until she attained the age of 21. That birthday came evidently in 1699 when Leake's neighbor, James Boughan,"transported "both James Lawless and Elizabeth Demsey into Essex Co, where, of course ,they already lived. For good measure, Boughan "transported" them again in 1700, in both of these instances they were purportedly accompanied by the following individuals when Boughan "transported", them yet a third time, in 1701. John Bruce, William Redding, Katherine Say, John Price, Anne Gibson, Jacob Sherwood, John Solomon, Elizabeth Savage, William Clay, Mary Jones, Elizabeth Norton, Elizabeth Sanders, and Robert Wilson. All but two or three of these surname turn up later in Pittsylvania Co,Va. Aside from Elizabeth Demsey, a John Demsey (her father?) was "transported" in 1695 and again in 1706 by the Essex planter, Frances Moore. "Demseys" still live in the Essex-Caroline area. About the Benjamin Lawless, I will have to do some research. I know there was more than one. Donna Loyles Hayes "Redding Jefferson Loyless an his Texas Family" in "I Remember When..." Memoirs and Essays onthe Paternal Ancestry of Albert Hendon Loyless. Mr. Hayes line was John Henry Loyless, the older brother of James Hardin. They were sons of Redding Jefferson Loyless and Mary Word Greenwood.