Anne Saunders

Ann Burton, born Abt. 1664 in Va; died Aft. 1738 in Henrico Co Va.
She was the adopted daughter of 32. Thomas Sr 0f Cobbs Burton and 33. Susanna.
Her biological parents were William Hatcher, Jr. and Susannah.

The youngest of five children.
Married in an Episcopalian Church.
Had six children.
After Bartholomew died, she married a widower, John Saunders.

Anne was born on the old Cobb's plantation also known as Cobb's Hall on the Appomattox River in what is now Chesterfield County, Virginia.
Ann married Bartholomew Stovall on August 06, 1693 at St. John's Church near the town of Curles, Virginia. The church is gone but some items and records remain at the new church on East Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia. The couple settled on 318 acres of land next to Deep Creek and the James River in what is now Powhatan County, Virginia.
The land is now owned by the Catholic Church and is the former site of St. Emma's Academy.

William Hatcher, Jr. was certainly dead before 20 Aug 1669 when his brother, as his surviving partner in a land deal, conveyed the land to another brother.
Depending upon how far Anne was born before or after that date, her father might be either Hatcher or Burton. We don't get any help from analyzing naming patterns to determine if Anne fits better in the Hatcher or Burton family because when Susannah married Thomas Burton, he appears to have changed the names of at least the male children from Hatcher family names to Burton family names.
The oldest son, certainly a son of William Hatcher, Jr., was renamed to be Thomas Burton, Jr. And William Hatcher, Sr. knew this because a deed from him to Thomas, Jr. survives.

Anne's date of birth is somewhat uncertain. The date of her marriage to Bartholomew Stovall (1693) might argue that she was born much later than her brothers (and thus was their half-sister, with Thomas Burton as the biological father). But others argue that she fits between the 1661 and 1665 dates of birth of her two eldest brothers, thus ensuring that William Hatcher, Jr. was her biological father. That is the position currently accepted by the Hatcher Families Genealogy Association. However, the date of birth for her youngest child, Thomas Stovall, argues for the latter date if his date of birth is in fact 1708 (Stovall research) instead of 1699 (Hatcher research). Still, 1663 to 1708 is 45 years, and even in the colonial era, this was not an impossible age for a woman to give birth.

References

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9HHJ-C3P Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 18 2020, 23:23:36 UTC
• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burton-681