HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld Folks, I mentioned earlier that the Moody name mentioned in connection to Hatchers could be important. I've been on a hunt today and found the following regarding the Henry Moody found on a few records of Samuel Hatcher, including the witnessing of Sam's will. Below is the only ref I've found directly connecting Henry Moody to the Hatchers. "He" is Francis Redford, stepfather of Samuel Moody, 2nd husband of Anne Lound Hatcher. Francis died 1693 in Henrico. "He appointed Lt. Col. John Farrar, Robert Bullington, and "son in law [stepson]" Samuel Moody overseers of his estate. His will left one mare to "grandson in law" Samuel Moody Jr. Anne and her husband evidently left Henrico County for no Moody appeared in the deed books of Henrico County for almost fifty years after Henry Lound's gift to his daughter with that name in 1678. Not until 1726 did Henry Moody witness a deed there. Another witness to this same deed was Anne's GRANDSON Samuel Hatcher [1770.1.2]. Thirty-six years later, in 1762, Henry Moody Sr. and Henry Moody Jr, witnessed Samuel Hatcher's will. Mary Lound, the daughter of Henry and Ann Lound, married Capt. Henry Batte [1762]. Virginians - The Family History of John W. Pritchett www.virginians.com Copyright © 2001-2003" Since Pritchett's site is no longer accessible [he is now selling CDs], I cannot see his ref to this deed that Henry Moody and Sam Hatcher witnessed. But from a well documented book, "Francis Moody (1769-1821) His Ancestors, Descendants, and Related Families and All Moodys in the Early Records of Chesterfield County, Virginia" Compiled by Clara Lorene (Cammack) Park, we find the following: "The earliest county record we have for Henry Moody (Sr. I), grandfather of Francis Moody, is in Henrico County, Virginia, and is dated March 15, 1725, at which time Thomas Jefferson signed his last will in the presence of Henry Moody (Sr. I) and Benjamin Branch, who, in turn signed the will as witnesses." This Tom Jefferson is found as witness to several Hatcher recs, including the original deeds from John Greenhaugh to his gsons in 1674. The above book appears to be well documented and highly respected by those who have read it. This book apparently does not attempt to assign parents to Henry Moody. "Anne's GRANDSON Samuel Hatcher" - this one unsourced reference from Pritchett may have been the source for Samuel Hatcher being attached as a son of Henry/Dorothy, son of Anne Lound Hatcher Moody. Several WC sites show no parents for Henry Moody. Some show his father as Robert Moody, brother of Samuel. None show Henry as son of Samuel and Anne. At this point, I can see no way to connect Sam Hatcher as being a relative of this Henry Moody and certainly there is nothing here to make the claim Sam was Anne's grandson. I can at best only call it coincidence that they were neighbors at various points in time, particularly with so many decades between Anne Lound Hatcher marrying Sam Moody [c1678] and any witnessing by Henry Moody and Sam Hatcher in 1725. Nel