In a previous post, the potential connections between Josiah Pearce and Rachel Pearce, wife of James Brown were explored based on similar migration patterns and the presence of T. J. Brown in both households. Since the publication of that post, a deed has been located in Belmont Count Records (Book X, page 316–317) that confirmContinue reading “James Brown | Pearce Family Connection, Confirmed”
Category Archives: Land
Thomas Hardy | Will & Land Distribution
Thomas Hardy wrote his last will and testament in the summer of August 1811 and by the next spring (May 1812), it was probated in court: To his wife, Mary, he lent “four feather beds and furniture, and all my household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils, &c.” He also lent “one bay mare called Lady,Continue reading “Thomas Hardy | Will & Land Distribution”
John Barkuloo | of the Narrows
1n 1799, John Barkuloo married Catherine Lott in Jamaica, Long Island and the newspaper reported that they were both of the Narrows. In 1800, John “Barkulow” is listed in the census for New Utrecht, Kings County, New York with a household of four members: The Narrows The Narrows is a strait of water between StatenContinue reading “John Barkuloo | of the Narrows”
Henrietta Mariah Van Slyke | Orphan
In 1852, Henrietta’s father, Andrew Van Slyke died. In 1857, her mother. Her eldest sister and her husband moved back to Texas to administer the estate and three siblings were sent to lived with three separate guardians. Guardianship was a legal arrangement to manage the property of those considered unable to manage it themselves, eitherContinue reading “Henrietta Mariah Van Slyke | Orphan”
James Hamilton | Frontier Regiment
Europeans and Euro-Americans designated the Red River as boundary for a long time. The French and Spanish viewed it as dividing line in the 1700s, the US and Spain continued its use as a border in the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty in conjunction with Mexico. The Republic of Texas used it as a boundary. The SouthernContinue reading “James Hamilton | Frontier Regiment”
Moses J Baker | Civil War
Samuel Rickner married Permelia Baker in 1832. Rickner, an immigrant from Switzerland, married into a slave-holdinng family that had migrated to Missouri from Kentucky and who in previous generations had migrated from the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina, all slave-holding states. In the mid 1830s, the Rickner family and Permelia’s brother, Moses J BakerContinue reading “Moses J Baker | Civil War”
Samuel Rickner | Crawford Seminary
In 1850, Samuel and Jacob Rickner were living in Jasper County, Missouri in the southwest corner of the state, along the border of the Indian Territory that would become the Kansas Territory in 1854 and the state of Kansas in 1861. Samuel was working the land as a farmer. His real estate was valued atContinue reading “Samuel Rickner | Crawford Seminary”
Levi Garrison | Whiskey Rebellion
Levi Garrison moved from Cumberland County, New Jersey, to Wheatfield Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the 1780s. Westmoreland County was in Western Pennsylvania, on the western edge of the Allegheny Mountains. In the early decades of the nation, the county borders changed as newer counties were created when the populations grew. In the 1790s,Continue reading “Levi Garrison | Whiskey Rebellion”
O. C. Crookham | Migration West
Oliver Cromwell Crookham was born to George and Sarah Crookham, old settlers of Jackson County, Ohio, in 1824. He was their tenth child. Pickaway County, Ohio In 1850, he married Mary Jane Walden in Jackson County. They moved from Jackson County, where both their parents lived, to Pickaway County, northwest of Jackson County, along theContinue reading “O. C. Crookham | Migration West”
John Barkuloo | Dearborn County, Indiana
John Barkuloo had a name that nobody could spell. From Long Island, NY of Dutch descent, the record keepers of Indiana did their best to spell the unfamiliar surname. For consistency sake, I have settled on “Barkuloo” for when writing about the family. The records, though, and transcription of the records, will reveal much moreContinue reading “John Barkuloo | Dearborn County, Indiana”
Finding the Yellow Bricks 