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 Thanks, Bob! At least I know there's one article I can grab. Nel

Unless things have changed since I last accessed JSTOR, look in "The William and Mary Quarterly" and type "Hatcher" into the search engine. Also just graze around in the various Virginia counties for other information, and related kinfolk Take a look, you might just find "The Hatcher Family" by the Rev. Francis Campbell Symonds, but, please, don't believe him when he says that William Hatcher lived in Careby Manor, Lincolnshire, England. Bill Harmon