HATCHER website: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/faq.htm
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Researching: Cook, Hall, Hatcher, Miller, Shepherd, Timberman
"Genealogy without Documentation is Nothing" - Paul Drake

Ah-so! Paul's response was what I believed to be true but not sure because
of the source of this land - the grandfather and not the father.

That leads me to my next question, which may not be able to be interpreted
quite as easily. In the following abstract, Ann Knibb is the mother of the
"grandson" who inherited the 100A, Jamestown is the father.
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February Court 1762, Page 195-196

A Deed indented from Ann Knibb and Jamestown Hatcher to Thomas Surls was
proved by the Oaths Richard Covington Edward Stuart and Obedience Stuart
Witnesses thereto. Ordered that the same be recorded.

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I am hoping to get the complete text of this deed but being the impatient
person I am, I am curious about the placement of the names in this deed.
I've seen hundreds of deeds but can't remember seeing one in which the
wife's name was front and foremost to her husband's name.

Is there any significance in Ann being listed first and, if so, what?

Thanks again!

Nel

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