John wrote >There are lots of little slips of the pen or brain wanderings in the records. Some are more serious, actually entering the wrong name for a person or a property.< This is so absolutely true. In one rather crucial record of a pre-nuptial agreement between one of my ancestors and his 3rd wife, the County Clerk signed his own name as that of the male party, though the text of the instrument otherwise reads correctly. The marriage bond of same date and marriage record (between the actual parties) prove the error. I have seen deeds where the Clerk wrote in the wrong first name for a grantor in one of the several boiler-plate warranties and assurances. One in Sussex Co. DE has a name of a nonexistent child (bearing the same name as the deceased father, part of whose partitioned land was being sold) put in the list of all those between whom the Orphans Court had divided the land - it was part of a long recitation of the grantor's right and title to his part. Possibly the clerk or the original scrivener had just found it too tedious. Happily the Orphans Court record outweighs this mistake. We are by no means the only ones who make mistakes or write-while-tired. Best wishes, Judy</HTML>

>>>> In one rather crucial record of a pre-nuptial agreement between one of my ancestors and his 3rd wife, the County Clerk signed his own name as that of the male party ... <<<< _________________ Not a Freudian slip? (Even a written "mistake" might reveal a good story.) Dave K