Kathy,

I'm attempting to transcribe the inventory as we speak but this one's 
not easy along with a lot of interruptions. What I can tell you that at 
the bottom of the page is the following:

In obedience to an order of the worshipful court of Bedford County Nov 
1822 to us directed one [end of page].

I can only hope I've rec'd all the pages. There "may" be another doc 
relating to this same person but it may also be his father.

But obviously there was an "order" issued for this inventory to be 
completed.

I suspect most of you may recognize this family if you have any family 
in Bedford in this time frame. The father of my individual was Rev. 
Jeremiah Hatcher SR, the dude who married half the couples in Bedford in 
the late 1700s. He died in 1804 but his estate was not finalized until 
1826. And we have his son, Jeremiah JR, [the subject of this discussion] 
who died in 1816.

A wealthy and religious family so it really doesn't surprise me that he 
was generous to his wife.

But I'm not really sure why Nancy Hatcher would have felt it necessary 
to challenge the conditions of the will. I don't believe her husband was 
in any particular need. Obviously, anything is possible though. I may 
have a better handle once I get this stuff transcribed. And transcribing 
ain't getting any easier :-)

Nel

HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com
HALL DNA project: 
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~halldna/HDNAtest.htm

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On 10/5/2011 12:35 PM, Westview wrote:
> While the possibility of Elizabeth having remarried in 1822 is very real (she must have been fairly young), reading the will I think the marriage of Nancy in Jan 1822 may very well have been the catalyst for the inventory.  Some courts only sat quarterly, so it may be that the family (likely pushed by Nancy's new husband) had to wait awhile after the marriage to ask for the inventory to settle the estate.  The court would have appointed the people to take the inventory and then they would have reported back at the next court.  It easily could have taken until the November court to file the inventory.  Start looking in the court order books in March.  By the by, is the actual date the inventory was taken Nov 1822, or was that the court at which it was presented?
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> A personal observation:  this is one of the more generous wills I have seen in that Jeremiah allowed Elizabeth the use of her 1/3 even if she remarried.  Most wills of the time stipulated that the use terminated if she remarried and everything be given to the children.  Kudos to Jeremiah for being a good man.
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