Can anyone help me with an odd record? I found this in a book entitled, LOUISA COUNTY RECORDS YOU PROBABLY NEVER SAW of 18th Century Virginia, compiled by John C. Bell, Nashville, Tennessee, 1983. Book was at the LDS library in Salt Lake City. Under a section in the book entitled "Unrecorded Deeds of Louisa County 1762-1803": Martha Tate & others to Isaac Morris 18 Nov 1801 John Tate, Wm Mansfield, Wm Hollins, Thos. Gooch, Corns. Gooch (Martha Tate, Timri Tate, Thomas Tate, Enos Tate, Sam'l McGehe and wife Nancy, Archibald Riddle and wife Elizabeth and James Hatcher and wife Martha, all heirs of Timri Tate late of Georgia, to Isaac Morris 200 acres on Contrary Creek bought of Charles Cosby and adjoining Wm Grady, Wm. Mansfield, Robert Lanford, Stapleton Crutchfield. Signed by Timri Tate as Attorney-in-Fact for all heirs. Proven 12 Apr. 1802 John Tate and Mansfield.) [There is a 200 on the margin of the page. 200 acres??] Does this mean that Thomas Gooch was once married to a Tate?? His son was Cornelius Gooch. I think he would have been over 21 in 1801. Does this mean that his mother was a Tate?? Alice What does the compiler mean by the placement of the parentheses?? **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)