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From: Gray Matters <>
Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] A Father for Hiram Pickering? correction
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 09:54:18 -0500


Oops, I didn't read carefully enough! Kurt was talking about witnesses to
wills, not deeds. However, I've found that there, too, the witnesses were
very often neighbors or friends, at least in my own family. Or, in later
years, courthouse employees (this is clear if the same person is a witness
to a series of wills written by people who seem to have no relation to each
other).

Martha Grenzeback




At 02:51 AM 26-08-2001 -0500, Kurt Pickering wrote:
>OK, fellow Pickerings, I'm soliciting opinions. Been thinkin' about this
>for months, and unless I find a way to review Hampshire County, WV, land
>records that probably don't exist anyway (HandyBook: records since 1863),
>I'm never gonna get any closer than I am now.
>
>My earliest proven Pickering ancestor is my great-great-great grandfather,
>Hiram, born about 1803 (census subtraction) in Virginia. He appears in
>the 1840 and 1850, as does his (presumed) widow in the 1860, censuses of
>Hampshire County, (then) VA.


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