Colonial America was mostly composed of Royal immigrants primarily from England that were escaping the English Monarchy, taxes and the wrath of Oliver Cromwell and his war-mongering accomplices that were attempting to dissolve the British Monarchy.
Many members of Colonial America groups such as "DAR", Daughters of The American Revolution don't realize that many of us are from these royal lineages of the first immigrants of the thirteen colonies that had abandoned their castles, moats and estates to escape the Cromwellian era, saving their lives by fleeing to America. We still have rights to these estates, wills, land and titles that were left behind by our brave ancestors.
"Deliberate Clerical Errors"
Throughout years of research into these lineages, it is quite apparent that many clerks registering and adding information into this line were deliberately hiding information by not adding all of the information, changing names and dates by adding unnecessary dashes, hyphens and other means of tampering with the information.
Ida Baskerville Tanner attempted to correct these clerical errors many times, in various ways. In 1915 it is documented that she wrote to many state and federal agencies about these errors. It is my opinion it was to hide estates, wills, land and heirlooms of the lineages.
This is an example of such clerical activities that is documented for over a hundred years of these errors.
This is from the Encyclopedia of Virginia, the "Virginia Cousins".
You can see where "Frances Knight Baskerville" is logged as "Fran-ces" without her entire name, and that she married "a Mr. Seat" this leaves a very vague and incomplete history of the lineages, making it difficult to decipher.
Excerpt:
** Martha' Jefferson married Bennet Goode and her descendants are here traced through the Baskerville, Pringle, Emett and Ed- wards families.
Richard' and Martha (Goode) Basker- ville had issue: i. Alice Goode", born in Cumberland county, August 23, 1792, died June 30, 1872; married William Pringle, of whoin further. 2. Thomas', died unmar- ried. 3. ;\lajor John Barber, settled in Car-roll county, near Hillsville, where he owned a large tract of land, including Grayson Sulphur Springs. He died unmarried. 4. A daughter, married a Mr. Steele. 5. Fran- ces, married a Mr. Seat.
As an example, I would say this is quite a huge clerical error. This is a major lineage of Colonial America linking to the President Thomas Jefferson line via Richard & Martha Goode Baskerville and their daughter, Frances Knight Baskerville.
** Reverend William Henry Seat's Mother is Frances Knight Baskerville, it is written in 1908 in the "History Of The Shearn Church" with info provided by Ida Baskerville Seat, yet this lineage seems to branch out in another direction.
This seems to be where the hidden information begins.