Re: Hincha and Amy
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In reply to:
Hincha and Amy
Gerry Hill 11/28/04
Gerry... I live in Sussex Co, Va. where everybody is kin to everybody and I have Gilliam and Chappell in my database. One of my best friends is a Chappell and I have chronicled his line. Briggs is my line.
Amy, wife of Hinchea Gilliam III was a daughter of William Briggs and Mary Cooke. William and Mary Cooke Briggs had daughters Elizabeth, who married James Chappell, Jr., Mary who married Thomas Chappell (youngest brother of James Jr.)son William Briggs who married another Mary Cooke (cousin of the other one and boy did I have a time figuring that one out!)and a daug Rebecca who married another brother Howell Chappell, all sons of a different James Chappell and Elizabeth Briggs. So... Amey in the will is Amy Gilliam's neice, and in keeping with family tradition of the time, probably her godmother, reasoning why she would be in her will.
Now for Hinchea... There were at least 4 of them in a row. John (b. c 1610) and Margery Hinchea Gilliam had the first one (b. abt 1665) and he married Furtune Flood, and she was half-sister to Mary Flood who married Henry Briggs.
Hinchea Gilliam II(b. abt 1695) married Faith Briggs, daug of Samuel, son of Henry and Mary Flood Briggs and her brother was the first William Briggs/Mary Cooke mentioned earlier.
Hinchea III (b. 1729) is the one of the posting, who married Amy Briggs,(daughter of the 1st WilliamBriggs/Mary Cooke,) whose sister Elizabeth married James Chappell Jr., son of James Chappell and Elizabeth Briggs, (daug of Henry Briggs/Elizabeth Lucas, son of Henry Briggs/Mary Flood.)
Thank God, I don't know who Hinchea IV (1759) married, but there is a Hinchey Gilliam (1719) who married Mary Johnson of my line. Folks say he was a son of a John Gilliam, if so then John must be a brother to Hinchea I.
All of these people lived in Albemarle Parish. Anyone may e-mail me directly if you wish. Jethro.