Thanks again Nel for your response JW Garrett --------------------------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:56:44 -0700 > Subject: Re: [HATCHER] A change to our file......... > > > 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 > > JW, > > Ain't gonna' get much feedback on this one. All the Burton "stuff" is eons old and unsourced........so I cheated and removed it :-) I now have only an unnamed wife and those kids who have been ID'd from records on our file. > > For giggles, I checked WC and never saw so much garbage in my life. He must have been married to half the women in Henrico if you go by some of these files! > > But I will say one thing about dower releases. The majority seem not to have survived and many have been found randomly in other court records. I would say only that John's wife died before his will was written without putting any date to it. The fact that no release was found in 1684 does not really tell you anything. With literally hundreds of Hatcher [seller, not buyer] deeds on our file, I would guess less than 5% have had a dower release found. > > Nel > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message