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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Justice of the Peace for a Witness

The signature is that of a Justice of the Peace in Virginia who witnessed an 1833 affidavit in a Revolutionary War pension case. The signature is not easy to read and unfortunately is different from the handwriting where he clearly writes and spells his name.

9 comments:

  1. OMG! I think the first name could be Ambrose; maybe the last is Reachers. A real stumper!

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  2. Ambrose Reachers.....very hard to tell....

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  3. Ambrose Peackens? Yikes! That's a difficult one to figure out.

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  4. Ambrose Beechem --It's a tough one

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  5. Gonna go out on a limb here and say Brose Rucker.

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  6. Ambrose Rucker, again! Neighbor of my ancestor Ichabod Camp in Amherst Co., VA

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