Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameJohn Saunders 
2078, Step 7G Grandfather
2078, Step 7G GrandfatherSpouses
1Susannah Anne Burton 1815,2076, 7G Grandmother
1815,2076, 7G GrandmotherBirth8 Aug 1664, Cobb’s Plantation, Henrico Co VA
Death2 Oct 1736, Henrico Co VA Age: 72
FatherThomas Burton (-1685)
MotherSusannah Hatcher (ca1642->1699)
Notes for Susannah Anne (Spouse 1)
Ann Burton was born around 1670 to Thomas Burton and Susannah Hatcher on the former "Cobbs" plantation on the Appomattox River. Thomas & Susannah had five children, Ann was the youngest. The other children included Thomas Burton; born in 1663/64, John Burton; born in 1666, Isaac Burton; born in 1667/68 and Abraham Burton; born in 1669.2078
APPENDIX 2 - Burton and Hatcher Ancestry of Ann (Burton) Stovall2079
The loss of Henrico County, Virginia records prior to 1677 has made it difficult to obtain knowledge concerning the antecedents of Ann (Burton) Stovall. The amount of misinformation which has been put into print on both the Burton and Hatcher families is considerable, not the least of which was the often repeated statement by the late Worth S. Ray that the mother of Ann Burton was a Susannah Allen, daughter of Valentine and Mary (Page) Allen.[1] This myth was packaged for the trash by Mrs. Glenn M. Turnell some years ago in an article which still remains one of the best on the subject,[2] and more recently an excellent study of the descendants of Thomas Page by Mrs. Carolyn H. Pappas proves from a lawsuit over land titles that Valentine Allen had two daughters only, both accounted for, neither named Susannah and neither the wife of Thomas Burton.[3]
At this time the parentage of Thomas Burton, like that of William Hatcher, remains unknown. Ray's attempt to show some relationship to a Richard and Katherine (Christian) Burton[4] who married at St. Saviour, Southwark, co. Surrey 3 March 1605/6[5] fails, as does any attempt to connect the brothers Thomas and John Burton to the Burtons of Longnor in the parish of St. Chad, Shrewsbury, co. Salop.[6] (Rev.) Francis Campbell Symonds,[7] and following him James Thomas McConnell,[8] created an imaginary "William Hatcher", member of Parliament for co. Lincoln, to be the father of William Hatcher the emigrant, and McConnell added for William a wife named Mary of whom the Virginia records make no mention at all. The proposed connection of the emigrant with the Hatcher family of Careby, co. Lincoln may be of no more antiquity than the speculation of (Dr.) William E. Hatcher on the subject;[9] because the tradition, of however recent origin, has been so much pursued in print, and because of the immediate rise to some social and political eminence by William Hatcher in Virginia, this appendix concludes with a detailed study of this family and a suggestion - it is only that, and not yet proof - as to where the emigrant might be fitted into this family if indeed he belongs to it.
NOTES FOR APPENDIX 2
[1] Worth S. Ray, Tennessee Cousins (repr. Baltimore, 1968), pp. 630-39.
[2] Glenn M. Turnell, "Burton-Allen/Hatcher Anthology", The Colonial Genealogist 10:204-08 (1979-81). In a slightly different form, this article appeared in Stovall Journal 1:100-04, 136-39 (1979).
[3] Carolyn H. Pappas, "Some Descendants of Thomas Page (ca. 1617-1676) of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia", The Virginia Genealogist 34:163-74 (1990). The document is Essex Co. Court Orders 19:334-36 (1754) and the names of the daughters were Elizabeth and Christian.
[4] Ray, supra note 1, p. 636 (the connecting line is dotted).
[5] The Genealogist (N.S.) 6:147 (1890) has a transcription of this marriage record.
[6] On the Burtons of Longnor, co. Salop see George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Shropshire... 1623 (2 vols., Harleian Soc. Pub., Visitation Ser. 28-29, London, 1889), 1:95, and George Morris, "Genealogy of Shropshire" (8 vols., Mss. Shropshire Libraries [Local Studies], Shrewsbury, Salop.), 4:294-307 at p. 301.
[7] (Rev.) Francis Campbell Symonds, "The Hatcher Family", William and Mary College Quarterly... (2nd Ser.) 16:457-68 (1936). The author was a descendant of Benjamin Hatcher, the emigrant's youngest son.
[8] James Thomas McConnell, "Ancestry of Ann Burton Stovall to William Hatcher, Burgess", Stovall Journal 8:50-57 (1986).
[9] Mary Denham Ackerly and Lula Eastman Jeter Parker, Our Kin (Harrisonburg, Va., 1976), p. 145. The authors note, correctly, that William Hatcher does not appear in the Visitation pedigree of 1634 taken for co. Lincoln [see below, note 84], and they were unable to make any connection of William Hatcher to the Hatchers of Careby.
APPENDIX 2 - Burton and Hatcher Ancestry of Ann (Burton) Stovall2079
The loss of Henrico County, Virginia records prior to 1677 has made it difficult to obtain knowledge concerning the antecedents of Ann (Burton) Stovall. The amount of misinformation which has been put into print on both the Burton and Hatcher families is considerable, not the least of which was the often repeated statement by the late Worth S. Ray that the mother of Ann Burton was a Susannah Allen, daughter of Valentine and Mary (Page) Allen.[1] This myth was packaged for the trash by Mrs. Glenn M. Turnell some years ago in an article which still remains one of the best on the subject,[2] and more recently an excellent study of the descendants of Thomas Page by Mrs. Carolyn H. Pappas proves from a lawsuit over land titles that Valentine Allen had two daughters only, both accounted for, neither named Susannah and neither the wife of Thomas Burton.[3]
At this time the parentage of Thomas Burton, like that of William Hatcher, remains unknown. Ray's attempt to show some relationship to a Richard and Katherine (Christian) Burton[4] who married at St. Saviour, Southwark, co. Surrey 3 March 1605/6[5] fails, as does any attempt to connect the brothers Thomas and John Burton to the Burtons of Longnor in the parish of St. Chad, Shrewsbury, co. Salop.[6] (Rev.) Francis Campbell Symonds,[7] and following him James Thomas McConnell,[8] created an imaginary "William Hatcher", member of Parliament for co. Lincoln, to be the father of William Hatcher the emigrant, and McConnell added for William a wife named Mary of whom the Virginia records make no mention at all. The proposed connection of the emigrant with the Hatcher family of Careby, co. Lincoln may be of no more antiquity than the speculation of (Dr.) William E. Hatcher on the subject;[9] because the tradition, of however recent origin, has been so much pursued in print, and because of the immediate rise to some social and political eminence by William Hatcher in Virginia, this appendix concludes with a detailed study of this family and a suggestion - it is only that, and not yet proof - as to where the emigrant might be fitted into this family if indeed he belongs to it.
NOTES FOR APPENDIX 2
[1] Worth S. Ray, Tennessee Cousins (repr. Baltimore, 1968), pp. 630-39.
[2] Glenn M. Turnell, "Burton-Allen/Hatcher Anthology", The Colonial Genealogist 10:204-08 (1979-81). In a slightly different form, this article appeared in Stovall Journal 1:100-04, 136-39 (1979).
[3] Carolyn H. Pappas, "Some Descendants of Thomas Page (ca. 1617-1676) of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia", The Virginia Genealogist 34:163-74 (1990). The document is Essex Co. Court Orders 19:334-36 (1754) and the names of the daughters were Elizabeth and Christian.
[4] Ray, supra note 1, p. 636 (the connecting line is dotted).
[5] The Genealogist (N.S.) 6:147 (1890) has a transcription of this marriage record.
[6] On the Burtons of Longnor, co. Salop see George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Shropshire... 1623 (2 vols., Harleian Soc. Pub., Visitation Ser. 28-29, London, 1889), 1:95, and George Morris, "Genealogy of Shropshire" (8 vols., Mss. Shropshire Libraries [Local Studies], Shrewsbury, Salop.), 4:294-307 at p. 301.
[7] (Rev.) Francis Campbell Symonds, "The Hatcher Family", William and Mary College Quarterly... (2nd Ser.) 16:457-68 (1936). The author was a descendant of Benjamin Hatcher, the emigrant's youngest son.
[8] James Thomas McConnell, "Ancestry of Ann Burton Stovall to William Hatcher, Burgess", Stovall Journal 8:50-57 (1986).
[9] Mary Denham Ackerly and Lula Eastman Jeter Parker, Our Kin (Harrisonburg, Va., 1976), p. 145. The authors note, correctly, that William Hatcher does not appear in the Visitation pedigree of 1634 taken for co. Lincoln [see below, note 84], and they were unable to make any connection of William Hatcher to the Hatchers of Careby.