Married:     1782 Cumberland County Virginia

Children:     Sarah W. (Patteson), Elizabeth (Isabel), Judith H. (Frazer), Henry, Martha (Harris), Mary (Patteson), Frederick L., John H., William A., Virginia W. (Venable), Benjamin

Two Bransford brothers, Benjamin and Francis, married two Hatcher sisters, Lucy and Sarah. The Bransfords and the Hatchers lived a few miles apart in Cuumberland County VA.

Benjamin Bransford, Sr., born in King William Parish, Chesterfield County, Virginia, December 15, 1769, moved with his father to Buckinham County, Virginia, in 1779. After completing his education he settled on a plantation (given him by his father) in Cumberland County, Virginia. He  was  successful  and  became a rich and influential  man in  that region of Virginia.  He was  an ardent Whig, but a great friend of John Randolph  of Roanoke. He was a prominent Methodist being class  eader in the famous old Bold Spring Methodist Church built in colonial days. He married in 1795 Lucy Hatcher, born in1775, died  n  840, daughter of Frederick Hatcher, a member of  the Cumberland County Connnittee of Safety, during the Revolution and  a  vestryman of Littleton parish.

Lucy was fond of society in her younger days and one who knew her says she possessed a vivacious manner and fine conversational powers. When about forty years of age, she sufered a stroke of paralysis that made her an invalid the rest of her life. For twenty years she had to be wheeled about in a chair, but was always bright and cheerful and glad to entertain her friends. She was reared in the Episcopal Church but after her marriage joined the Methodist church with her husband.