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The Gilliam In-Laws: Back to Virginia, Part 1

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So far in this blog, we have covered the Gilliam line from their first steps in the New World in 1635 and followed them as they migrated across the country. Those posts have taken us from the Virginia Colony to Tennessee, then to Arkansas and Texas and Oklahoma. Before we follow the next generation of Gilliams from Oklahoma to California, I want to go back and discuss the women married to the Gilliams in our direct line and their families. Some of those families are not as well documented as the Gilliam line, but I will try to provide whatever evidence we have of our "great" grandmothers. In this post we will start with the women who married John Gilliam (1613-1673) ( my generation's ninth great-grandfather ), and his son Hinchea Gilliam (1663-1734) ( my generation's eighth great-grandfather ), both of whom stayed in the James River Basin of Virginia. In a prior post "Why are there so many Hinchea Gilliams?"  we discussed Margery ( my generation'