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