I seem to remember seeing the Hatcher name in the W. John Carrier line
and this email below from the Hatcher list pops up now and then so I
though I'd pass it on to our list for the W. John branch.
Neal
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Subject: PML Search Result matching carrier
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:00:34 -0700
From: nelhatch <nelhatch(a)hills.net>
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Source: HATCHER(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [HATCHER] Going out on a limb again.........
HATCHER website:
http://hatcherfamilyassn.com
HALL DNA project:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm
"If you can't stand the skeletons, stay out of the closet" - Val D
Greenwood
Barbara,
Below is the msg I sent on the 21st re: Wm of SullivanCo.......
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When you guys get too quiet, I feel the need to regale you with my
latest flight of fancy.......
I have (once again) been pondering on the mystery of our Wm of
SullivanCo, TN (I blame it all on Shirley :-)
So just for giggles, I started a search for the families closely
associated with Wm and his kids......
Morrell - a NJ family in east TN as early as 1770
Shoun - a PA/MD family (sold land to Wm in 1801)
Shipley - a MD family and in east TN late 1700s
Millard - a PA family
Carrier - origins unknown but md into Morrells in Shenandoah, VA
Sams - is this the Semmes family from MD?
Interesting that Wm is associated only with non-VA families, hey?
And where did the name Asa come from? Perhaps from the Shipleys where
we find that name in east TN.
So why is this important and where is Nel going with all this?
Because we have a Wm Hatcher bn c1756-60 who appeared on the 1775-78
CharlesCo, MD census list as "18 or older" and who is probably son of
John who witnessed the will of a Joseph Milburn Semmes. See
http://hatcherfamilyassn.com/getperson.php?personID=I194&tree=UncHat
This Wm hasn't been found in MD after 1775-58.
While this is by far not a clearly proven family, it appears to go
back to a John Hatche (name goes back and forth from Hatche to
Hatcher) who appears in CharlesCo, MD in 1638. Interesting date, ya
think?
It's easy to assume that Wm must be from VA but that may be the
mistake that creates this brick wall. Knowing there was major
migration into east TN after the RW and seeing Wm surrounded by these
non-VA families, why couldn't he have moved with some of these
families from MD to TN?
Although I can't nail down with maps exactly which VA counties the
major road ran thru, it does appear to run along the northern counties
of VA probably just north or in Buck'hamCo and possibly thru
Shenandoah where the Morrells and Carriers were found.
And even tho our earliest TN rec for Wm was the 1796 tax list which
was probably the first taken in this area after NC ceded the land to
TN, Wm may have been there a good deal earlier.....
Wotcha' think?
Nel