This is the reason I look at all names now. In the first land deed I found for my Joel Avery Reeves. His name was spelled as I just type it, but at the end it was written Reaves. They evidently didn't know which way to spell it. In Joel Avery's will several mistakes were made due to spelling. He had one daughter who married Wyatt T. Heard but it looked like Hurd. However another daughter married a Heard and it was spelled correctly. I spent several years looking for the Hurds. Also one thing to watch for is the old script. So many old documents were written and it is hard for researchers to decipher unless you study old script. There is a site online you can go to but right now I seem to have lost the url but if I find it I will post it. I don't know how these things were recorded. but I would think they may have been done by someone and brought in to the court to be notarized and then copied in the books. Or did the clerk sit there and write it as they told him what they wanted? So many mistakes could happen that way. I really don't know but if anyone does I would like to know as I've thought about it quite a few times. Beulah