What is the "Douglas Register" and where is it? Judy Shelby Puckett wrote: > Here's my take on the Hubbards of PCVA: > The names of the children of Benjamin & Jesse Hubbard have a lot in > common with the names of Hubbards listed in the Douglas Register > (Goochland > Co). I have found the birth of a Jesse Hubbard (my ancestor) listed > in the > Douglas Register at about the right time for my Jesse, listed as the > son of > John Hubbard and Elizabeth Clark. I have long suspected that Benjamin > & > Jesse were brothers, or at least first cousins. Papers in the > Historical > Museum in Stuart list Charity Hannah's parents as Benjamin Hubbard & > Hannah > Martin, but I don't know if someone has concrete proof or if that just > > looked like the spot she fit into. One other possibility I've > considered > is that Charity may have been a much younger sister of Jesse & > Benjamin's > who migrated with them. > The Goochland Co Hubbards seem to be descendants of a Robert Huberd, > > whose family (I think, I don't have my notes with me at work) were > Quakers. > Wouldn't Charity be the kind of name a Quaker would use? It seems a > little more unusual than your standard Marys, Elizabeths, Annes..... > I'd appreciate anyone else's opinions or hunches. So far it's only > a > theory that the PCVA Hubbards came out of Goochland. I haven't begun > to > dig into wills or deeds yet, just ran across the names in the Douglas > Register and I'll have to wait until I can get back to Bassett to go > through it more thoroughly. In the meantime, I'd welcome any input, > good, > bad, or indifferent. > > --------------------- > "You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick > your > relatives." ;^> > > Shelby Hubbard Puckett spuckett@bgsm.edu