In a message dated 8/6/01 8:49:47 AM, HANSER5@aol.com writes: << Hello Arvil: I appreciate your latest comments! As a middle child, I have a propensity to attempt to mediate and to reconcile contradicting matters, as will be reflected in my comments which follow: >> Hi Jim: I also am a middle child. When I first heard about the "birth order" theory, I immediately recognized that it didn't seem to prove out in my family. So I tested it out on a number of other families, including some in my family tree. I now consider it in the same category with Astrology. The enigmatic Mr. William Hancock continues to elude us. The more we learn, the less we know. In an attempt to get a better look at some of the old documents that have been so frquently cited but which most of us have never seen, I have been in correspondence with the library at the University of Virginia. Mr. Edward Gaynor, Head of Technical Services, Special Collections, Alderman Memorial Library, has been trying to help. In the J. Rives Childs history of the Hancocks in Virginia that was published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography back in the 1920s, Childs makes the statement: "The connection of William Hancock with the Virginia Company is attested to by Brown, Genesis, AND THE DEATH OF WILLIAM HANCOCK AT BERKELEY IS NOTED BY THE VA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS, VOL 8, PAGE 278." Mr. Gaynor, at first, did not recognize "VA Historical Collections." After some searching, he found that the citation refers to: Abstract of the proceedings of the Virginia Company of London, 1619-1624, prepared from the records in the Library of Congress by Conway Robinson, and edited with an introd. and notes by R. A. Brock (Collections of the Virginia Historical Society; new ser., v. 7-8). According to Mr. Gaynor, page 278 does indeed mention "William Hancocke" as an "Adventurer" for the Virginia Company in 1620. But it does NOT state that he died at Berkeley Hundred, or indeed whether he actually came to Virginia. At the moment, we know that a William Hancock was an Adventurer in the Virginia Company of London, Second Charter, 1609. That is documented. Any other information about him is unproven, as far as I know. Arvil