"Next friend" is like power of attorney. I have a case in my line where the a man was the "next friend" of his brothers wife.
On Monday, July 7, 2014 12:16 PM, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Seem like to me that I have seen instances where one's "next friend" was a
relative !
In a message dated 7/7/2014 12:09:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Friend means just that, friend. Not brother. Executor Daniel Brown was
probably not the witness Daniel Brown.
On Jul 7, 2014, at 8:59 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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?
>
> 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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