Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Carol
The BLM land grant site has been in my list of holy grails of documentation resources for many years now. I found early on that if I needed to go back before the 1850 census when all names were listed, I could check land grants and use their dates to pinpoint just about the time [...]
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Filed under: Genealogy, Land Records, Military, Oregon City, Revolutionary War
Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Carol
Note: Elisha Bailey was in court on this day, 176 years ago! REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION RECORD of ELISHA BAILEY – W. 8344 State of Kentucky Adair County On this 1st day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the county court for the County aforesaid now sitting Elisha Bailey a resident of Adair [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Carol
Capt. Thomas Poindexter 1733 – 01 Jan 1807 The photo of Capt. Thomas Poindexter’s tombstone in Louisa County, VA was sent to me by Tom Hobbs, an archeologist who has been working at the Broaddus Flats site for many years now. I had written to him to thank him for creating the website VirginiaDigs.net and [...]
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Filed under: Genea-Bloggers, Genealogy, Revolutionary War, Tombstone Tuesday