Lucy was mentioned in the will of her father, William signed on July 31, 1755 (most likely a transcription error and the year should be 1775 BJS) and recorded on October 23, 1775 in Bedford County, Virginia.
Teste: James Steptoe[1][2][3]
Sources
↑Bedford County Virginia Will Book 1, 1759-1787 & Bedford County Virginia Will Book 2, 1787-1803. Ann Chilton, c. 1988. Mountain Press, P.O. Box 400, Signal Hill, Tennessee 37377-0499. www.mountainpress.com, p.22; Will Book 1, Page 239
↑Abstract of Virginia Wills Before 1799, Copied from the Court House Records of
AMHERST, BEDFORD, CAMPBELL, LOUDOUN, PRINCE WILLIAM and ROCKBRIDGE, by William Montgomery Clemens, Editor of the Genealogy Magazine, published 1924. p. 59
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lucy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lucy: