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