HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "If you can't stand the skeletons, stay out of the closet" - Val D Greenwood Burnis, "I don't even know how we have arrived at the idea the William Hatcher of these Bucks County records is our William Hatcher." Thank you! After spending the past 2 days working on this and carefully looking over Wm's recs and the Quaker recs, it clearly seems to me that some of his alleged children have been attached on assumptions only. Example: John/Sarah Ingledue. Hinshaw shows him arriving at Goose Creek and shortly after he married Sarah. None of their few recs ID parents for either one of them. And I won't say that I may not have missed something but I've not seen any of Wm's "kids" showing Wm/Ann as their parents in Hinshaw. And while I agree with Agatha Hartley that these Hatchers are not the Henrico Hatchers, I will question her statement that the Quaker Hatchers "came to Philadelphia in 1682." That was the year of the arrival of the 1st boatload of Penn immigrants and while the passenger list has not survived, a reconstruction has been made with no Hatchers. The Quakers were still coming over 10-20 yrs later. I could reiterate the dozens of questions that have been forming in my mind lately but to keep it short.....I think we've got a real can of worms here. What I can tell you is that the most of the recs I have for Wm/Ann begin in 1756-57 at Goose Creek. The few recs I have on his page are for the unknown Wm in BucksCo. So if you've got any pre-1750 recs (like the Tax lists), I would much appreciate a copy. We've also got two more elves working on this - Ray Nelson and Ed Johnson. Between the 3 of us I hope to have more and better input on this and hopefully, by the time you hit SLC, we might have some really specific people and things for you to look for. Nel

Be it Remembered, That on the Thirteenth Day of November in the first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, King of Great Britain, Etc. Anno Domini, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty Seven license of Marriage was granted by His Excellency Wm. Burnet????? - - - - - Governour of the Provinces of New-Jersey and New-York, Etc. unto Wm. Hatcher of the county of Bucks in Province of Pennsylvania Wheelwright - - - of the one Party AND "Anne VANSAND" of the Same county & Province Spinster of the other Party. Given under the said Governour's Hand and Prerogative - Seal of the Province of New-Jersey aforesaid, and dated the Day and Year above-written. Entered in the Secretary's Office at Burlington, Lau??: Bushill D. Secry: In the calendar in use at the time, November was the first month of the year 1727. This marriage was not recorded by the Quaker Monthly Meetings in either Burlington county, New Jersey or Bucks county, Pennsylvania, probably because Ann would have been a member of the Dutch Reformed church and thus, not a Quaker. William owned property in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, at the time of this marriage, making him at least 18 years old and thus born before 1709.