The deed does not say "next friend" which is usually a guardian ad litem in a law suit, not in a deed. It just says "friend."
On Jul 7, 2014, at 12:16 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Seem like to me that I have seen instances where one's "next friend" was a
> relative !
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> In a message dated 7/7/2014 12:09:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Friend means just that, friend. Not brother. Executor Daniel Brown was
> probably not the witness Daniel Brown.
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> On Jul 7, 2014, at 8:59 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> I have a Will that was written by a John Brown in Culpeper Co., VA in
> 1801, and that John Brown referred to the Daniel Brown who was the executor
> of that Will as "friend." It had seemed likely, however, that this Daniel
> Brown was probably a brother of that John Brown. Based on the use of the word
> "friend," should I now be doubtful that those two men were truly brothers
> after all?
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>> Also, a Daniel Brown and a Thomas Brown were witnesses on the above
> Will, and I suspect that this Daniel Brown was the same man who was also the
> executor. Could the executor also be a witness? The Thomas Brown who was a
> witness was probably the known brother of Daniel Brown. We suspect that this
> John, Daniel and Thomas Brown were the known sons with those names of the
> older John Brown in Culpeper (died early-1780s) who had married his cousin
> Elizabeth Brown back in the 1730s or so (this is DNA "Group 10" at the Brown
> Genealogy Society DNA testing project, and that Brown family "traces back"
> to the Francis Brown "I" who left his Will in Essex Co., VA in 1691/1692).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill Davidson
>>
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