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Hatcher of Virginia & Wilkinson County, Georgia


John Hatcher was born 1750 in Henrico County Parish, Virginia and served as a Major during the Revolutionary War in the regiment of Colonel William Candler for which he received bounty lands of 187-1/2 acres in Washington County in 1785. He was married ca 1772 in Virginia to Mary Brady and they came to Wilkinson County in 1810 where he died and was buried in the old family cemetery on his plantation in the Passmore District.

A deed in Wilkinson County Deed Book A, page 619, of John Hatcher, Sr. of Wilkinson County, for love and affection, deeded Crawford County land to "my grandchildren," viz: Jeremiah B. Hatcher, Nancy L. Hatcher, Polly Hatcher, Robert Hatcher, John Hatcher, Amanda Hatcher, Henry Hatcher, Cicero Hatcher, Elizabeth Hatcher, Narcissa F. Hatcher and Obedience B. Hatcher, the children of John Hatcher, Jr. and Peggy Hatcher. Date: 10 April 1835. Issue:
  1. Jerry B. Hatcher.
  2. Cicero R. Hatcher.
  3. John Hatcher.
  4. Sidney Hatcher.
  5. William Hatcher.
[1] The Augusta Chronicle dated 10 May 1806. [2] All of the sons of William Green Hatcher served as Confederates during the War Between the States; History of Wilkinson County, pp. 542-543.