--- On Fri, 2/6/09, James Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > Chowan BK B PG. 328, John Leonard to Henry Jones 14 Nov 1727 > 10 pds for 230 A on NS Morrattock River at Deep Bottom > adj Wm. Reeves, Barnaby Melton. Wit: James Gee, SAMUEL > CHAPPELL. > > 1764 April 10 William PACE former land sold by Elizabeth > & Benjamin CHAPPELL to Joel HURT. 200 pounds Virginia > money the 354 acres that belonged to William PACE ... > Benjamin CHAPELL and Elizabeth his wife > hath an indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple > signed by both wit Thomas MARSHAL, Arch HAMILTON, db 8 pg > 437 Halifax county (25) > These two deeds show that (a) in 1727 Benjamin Chappell's father owned land on the Morratock, near various Paces; and (b) by 1764 Benjamin Chappell and his wife Elizabeth were selling land which formerly belonged to a William Pace. A possible explanation of this might be that due to his father owning land near Paces, Benjamin Chappell met and married an Elizabeth Pace who inherited land from her father William Pace. Am I right in thinking that the land that was sold by the Chappells, formerly belonged to William Pace, son of John and Elizabeth? Can this be shown to be true (or untrue) through the land descriptions? If true, then it would seem to me reasonable to suppose that William Pace, whose mother was Elizabeth, might have named a daughter Elizabeth; and that she might have married Benjamin Chappell. James

--- On Fri, 2/6/09, James Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > > A possible explanation of this might be that due to his > father owning land near Paces, Benjamin Chappell met and > married an Elizabeth Pace who inherited land from her father > William Pace. Or, even more likely, Samuel Chappell might have already known and/or been related to his Pace neighbors, before he ever bought the land on the Morratock. That's probably how he came to buy land in that particular location. They were probably all cousins two or three times over before Benjamin Chappell was even born. My guess. James