Renea, I haven't had a chance to look at Perry Co. marriage records yet, but that does sound probable. I'm sure Dutton and Miriam (Myriam) married there. I recently purchased Tennessee Land Grants, H-Hz and sent all the Hill grants in Decatur, Perry and Henderson Cos. to Decatur Co. Archives. I don't think Mike has posted them yet, he said he had another project in the works but did post some more deeds I had submitted. I have ordered the grants for L and will get those for R next but think that will be all, there are so many records I need and this town is so small, the FHC is very small too. I hope to get to Salt Lake City eventually for a few days. If you could just remind people that the Archives are available and can be very helpful, it might remind them to submit records there too. 'Nuf said! Phyllis -----Original Message----- From: Renea Burkholder <grburk@usit.net> To: TNDECATU-L@rootsweb.com <TNDECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [TNDECATU-L] Lunsford >Phyllis, >Maybe a marriage for Jane to the Doherty can be found in Perry Co. The land >may have come into the Hill family as a land grant - have you ever checked >grants for Hills? >Renea >At 09:18 PM 4/19/98 -0600, you wrote: >>Thanks, Renea, >> >>I think Dutton Hill and Jane Doherty must have been brother and sister. >>Dutton's wife was Miriam Lassiter, according to a death certificate in my >>possession. The person who furnished the info was a grandson of Dutton and >>his parents lived with him in their last years. He tried to help me once >>but was too ill to keep up the corresondence. We really should have made >>the effort to visit him. > >>>I did a quick look Sat at deeds to see if I could find when a Hill or >>>Doherty received land that could be this land, but didn't see it. I guess >>>we'll hope that in the slower process of reading each deed maybe I'll find >>>something. It would seem that they both inherited the land to both be >>>selling it - Perhaps Jane was a Hill or Dutton's wife was a Doherty ? >>>Renea >>>At 08:58 AM 4/18/98 EDT, you wrote: >>>>In a message dated 98-04-17 23:06:14 EDT, you write: >>>> >>>><< I feel sure the men are all brothers but what do you know about a >>Doherty >>>> connection? When Dutton Hill and Jane Doherty sold that piece of land in >>>> 1869 he said they had a good right to sell it. I'd like to know where >>they >>>> got it and how? Did they inherit it? I never could find a Jane Doherty >>in >>>> the census records, perhaps she was in the 1870 census. I thought she >>might >>>> have been in Henderson County but the deed says they were both of Decatur >>>> Co. It gets very complicated!! >>>> >> >>>> >>>>Good question.....Do you have a copy of that deed? I would like to do a >>>>follow up on it. >Renea Burkholder >TNGenWeb Coordinator for Decatur Co., TN > http://www.netease.net/decatur/ >Listowner: Decatur and Henderson Co, TN Mail list > TNDECATU- L@rootsweb.com > > > > >==== TNDECATU Mailing List ==== >To subscribe or unsubscribe in mail mode: >Send message "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" to >TNDECATU-L-request@rootsweb.com > >