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 and anyone interested...... Below is the Hatcher-Coates record I referred to. John Hatcher bn c1760 md Amelia Coates in 1783. In 1801 John and Amy sold a Philly lot to Samuel Coates. These 2 appear to have lived and died in Philly. John's page http://hatcherfamilyassn.com/getperson.php?personID=I728&tree=Unchat Burnis - can you ID this Sam and how or if he may relate to Amy? Siblings, perhaps? If so, parents?? Anything? Who is Josiah L Coates? Nel ----------------- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Deed Book EF-10, Page 23-24 LDS Film 21947 Transcribed by Cecil Q Larsen John Hatcher & w. To Samuel Coates This Indenture made the Seventh day of April Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and one Between John Hatcher of the City of Philadelphia House Carpenter and Amy his Wife of the one part and Samuel Coates of the same place Merchant of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Hatcher and Amy his Wife for and in consideration of the sum of seven hundred and ninety six Dollars current _____(?) Money of the United States unto them __________(?) of by the said Samuel Coates in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged Have granted bargained and sold released and confirmed and by these presents Do grant bargain and sell release and confirmed unto the said Samuel Coates his heirs and assigns All that Lot or piece of ground situate in the West side of Ninth Street from Delaware between Locust and France(?) Street in the said City Containing in breadth on the said Ninth Street twenty feet and in length or depth One hundred and Eighty eight feet Bounded Eastward by Ninth Street aforesaid Northward with a lot intended to be granted to Matthias Valentine ____(?) on Ground rent forever Westward by Rasberry Alley and Southward with ground of Thomas Shields (Being part of a larger Lot of Two hundred and fifty feet on Ninth Street by One hundred and eighty eight feet on Locust Street which the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania by their Deed poll dated the Twenty sixth day of December One thousand seven hundred and eighty one granted unto the said Thomas Shields in ___(?)) Together with all the rights Liberties privileges Buildings Ways Waters W___(?) Members Herediments premises and Appurtenances whatsoever thereto belonging And the revisions and remainders thereof To have and to hold the said Lot of Ground with their Appurtenances unto the said Samuel Coates his Heirs and assigns To and for the only use and Behoof of the said Samuel Coates his heirs and assigns forever Under and subject to the payment of a yearly rent charge of Fourteen Ounces five pennyweight and ten Grains of fine Silver not courser than the Standard of the Kingdom of France in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty five yearly forever on the First day of January in every year to the said Thomas Shields without any Deduction or Abatement to be made for any Taxes Charges or Assessments whatsoever. This property being the same which the said Thomas Shields granted to the said John Hatcher subject to the rent charge aforesaid by Deed dated the Seventeenth day of June One thousand Seven hundred and eighty four. Recorded at Philadelphia in the Office for Recording of Deeds for the City and County of Philadelphia in Book ___ page ___ ____(?) And the said John Hatcher and Amy his wife and their Heirs the said _____(?) to be with the Appurtenances unto the said Samuel Coates his heirs and assigns aforesaid then the said John Hatcher and Amy his wife and their heirs _____(?) against all and every other person and persons whatsoever lawfully claiming or to claim by ____(?) form or them or any of them shall and will warrant and forever defend by _______(?) In witness whereof the said _____________(?) John Hatcher Amey Hatcher ___(?) the day and year first above written. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Michael Callanan Jno R Smith Witnesses for John Hatcher's signing Josiah L Coates W J Jacob Witnesses for Amy Hatcher's signing Received the day ____________(?) John Hatcher ___________(?) Witness Michael Callanan John R Smith Witness for John Hatcher's signing City of Philad. ...........personally appeared the above named John Hatcher and Amy his wife ........... written ......... to be their Act and Deed ........ said Amy being examined separately and apart from her said Husband ........ her Act and Deed without any compulsion or coersion of her said Husband....... the Seventh day of April 1801. B. Smith Recorded the 9th day of July 1801.