Eli MCLAUGHLIN murdered by John Elliot...Bk 5 pg 340
 He was killed by John Elliot in 1816. Russel Co. Va Court shows Elliot was  held over for trail Nov. 6, 1816.  Apr-1817 Term of Russell County Virginia  court, Abner Vance distinguished himself in the trial of John Elliott. John  Elliott was being tried for the murder of Eli McLaughlin. Eleven of the jurors  stood for first degree. Abner Vance "hung the jury" and with his eloquent  oratory won them over.
 Instead of hanging, the sentence was "nine years in the penitentiary house in  a solitary cell with a low coarse diet for half of the term."

VA Deed book 9 page 265-6 and following. this deed relates to the liquidation  of Eli's land after his death.

Russell Co., Va., Deed Book #9, p. 265-6

This indenture made this 6th day of March in the year of our Lord 1830 between  Jacob King and Mary his wife, late Mary McLaughlin, who was the widow of Eli  McLaughlin deceased, Joseph Kinser and Ann his wife, late Ann McLaughlin  daughter of the said Eli deceased, Israel McLaughlin a son of said Eli and  Elizabeth his wife, Philip Flanagin and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth  McLaughlin daughter of the said Eli deceased, ____?____ [unreadable]  Yeary  and Eliza his wife, late Eliza McLaughlin daughter of said Eli deceased, James  Allen and his wife Mary, late Mary McLaughlin and Matilda McLaughlin, also  children of the said Eli deceased of the first part and James Browning of the  County of Russell and state of Virginia, witnesseth that the aforesaid parties  of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars  to them in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, do grant  and bargain and sell unto the said James Browning and his heirs, a certain  tract or parcel of land containing 97 acres be the same more or less, lying  and being in the said county of Russell on Jessee’s Mill Creek, which was  granted to Charles Kinzer from this Commonwealth by patent bearing date of the  17th day of Sept. 1800 and was conveyed to the said Eli McLaughlin from John  Candler and Dorthy his wife, by deed recorded in the court of said county and bearing date of the 3rd day of January 1814; and which said tract  is bounded as followeth, to wit:   Beginning at a white oak on the south side  of said creek N50 degrees W20 poles to a dogwood lying N70 degrees 18 poles  crossing the creek to a white oak S50 degrees E 4   ? poles to a gum S55  degrees E100 poles to a white oak N70 degrees E20 poles to a white oak and  poplar S35 degrees E18 poles to a white oak and maple S35 degrees E28 poles to  a buck and maple N77 degrees W20 poles crossing the Creek to a poplar S64  degrees W40 poles to a chestnut and sugartree West 20 poles to a double  chestnut S40 degrees W24 poles to a chestnut N80 degrees W40 poles to a black  oak W25 degrees 20 poles to a small black oak, N85 degrees W40 poles to a  dogwood N40 degrees W20 poles to a dogwood N40 poles to a white oak and N60  degrees E92 poles to the beginning.   With the appurtenances to the said James  Browning and his heirs, to the sole use and behoof of the said James Browning  and his heirs forever. And the said parties of the first part for themselves  and their heirs to covenant and agree with the said James Browing and his  heirs, that they the said parties of the first part and their heirs the said  tract or parcel of land with the appurtenances unto the said James Browning  against the claims of the said parties of the first
 part and of all known claiming by, through, or with them and their heirs. In  witness whereof the said parties of the first part have hereunto subscribed  their names and affixed their seals, the day and year first above written.

Jacob King
 Mary King
 Joseph Kinser
 Ann Kinser
 Israel McGlaughlin
 Elizabeth McGlaughlin
 James Allen
 Mary Allen
 {All signed by mark}

Our thanks to Freida Davidson for furnishing this translation of the transfere  of deed.