MARYLAND Langfords

Family, Kindship and Community
Page 215
"How many women found themselves in the position of Joane Langford, who sued George Harris of Charles County [Maryland] in 1668 'for begetting a Bastard Child on her Body and for Nonperformance of his promise to Marry her'."
Horn, James, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

TEXAS LANGFORD/LANKFORD SIGHTINGS

CHARLES LANKFORD
Nacogdoches County Texas
1826 Tax List
source: 1820-1820 Texas Tax List Index
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LAURA LANGFORD/LANKFORD
Residence: East side of Hutchins between Cliff, 4th, Oak Cliff
Dallas, Texas
1891, 1892, 1893, 1894
source: Dallas Texas Directory, 1889-1894
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GEORGE R. LANGFORD
Residence: 117 Dexter Avenue
Dallas, Texas
Occupation: Teamster
1891, 1892

RUSSELL LANGFORD
Residence: G. R. Langford
Occupation: Teamster
1891, 1892
source: Dallas Texas Directory, 189-1894
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MISS JESSIE C. LANGFORD
Location: 1216 Main Street, Business of E. W. Aldrich
Dallas, Texas
Occupation: Medical student
1889, 1890

Location 1: Office over 318 Elm Street
Location 2: Boards with Mrs. A. E. Bartram
Occupation: Electic physician
1891, 1892

Location 1: Office over 349 Main Street
Location 2: Boards with Mrs. A. E. Bartram
Occupation: Physician
1893, 1894
source: Dallas, Texas Directory 1889-1894
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1130 LANGFORD, ALFRED
San Augustine; 7th July 1835
Alfred Langford is a native of Virginia, a man of family of three persons, emigrated in June 1835
R. C. McDaniel, C.P.O.
1130a
Nacogdoches Aug. 15th 1835
Mr. Surveyor Sir: You are to survey in Zavala's Grant the sitio which Mr. Alfred Langford will designate
Jorge Anto Nixon, Comr.

1131. LANKFORD, GARRET M.
San Augustine August 19, 1835
Garret M. Lankford a native of Tennessee is a man of family of eight persons, emigrated in 1829.
Saml Thompson Alcd.

1132 LANKFORD, MARY
San Augustine Sept. 23d, 1834
Mrs. Mary Lankford a native of Virginia is a widow woman of a family of three persons.
Benjamin Lindsey Alcd.

source: Character Certificates of the General Land Office of Texas
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Friday June 1936 Merrill H. Langford Dies In Dallas Mon.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. from the Guardian Funeral Chapel in Dallas, for Merrill H. Langford, 23, who died Monday in a Dallas hospital with a throat infection. The services were conducted by Rev. D. A. Bryant. Burial was in Restland Cemetery.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Estella Langford, Dallas; one brother, Jack of Detroit, Mich.; one sister, Miss Sara Nell Langford, Dallas. Pall bearers were Sam Baty, Fred Grimes, Pete Case Jr., William H. Grice, J. G. Gentry and V. J. O’Connor.
Merrill Langford lived in Arlington with his mother and family until three years ago when they moved to Dallas. The family has many friends here who will be grieved to hear of his death. He was ill only three days, suffering with tonsolitas which developed the infection of the throat. Several members of the Arlington Baptist Church attended the funeral services.

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1890 Union Soldiers in Texas

Langford Nimrod P. Pvt Mo Tarrant 100 L521

Langford William A. Williamson 102 L521


Lankford Alexander B. Delta 99 L521

Lankford George R. Pvt F 49 KY Inf Dallas 100 L521

Lankford William Pvt Thomas Reg La Inf Harris 99 L521

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Lankford land deeds in Wood County Texas

Antoine Calderon Land Grant - Lankford family

Business and Other Papers of Dr. J. S, Paschal

Abstracted where appropriate.

Deed, Kaufman County, Texas, 15 April 1881. I, Augusta R. Hoskins joined by my husband B. B. Hoskins . . . for the hereinafter consideration, paid by J. M. Lankford of Wood County, . . . sell . . Thirty acres of land more or less being a part of the Antoine Calderon 1476 acre grant . . in Wood County. . .One promisory note signed by J. M. Lankford & his wife Elizabeth Lankford . . the sum of seventy five dollars

Handwritted Deed of Conveyance:

The State of Texas, County of Wood
. . . I, Condy Raquet of Nacognoches County and Town of said state acting through my Attorney in face, William L. Alexander of said Wood County and for a consideration of Four Hundred dollars . . by James M Langford . . have sold to James J. Langford . . one hundred and sixty acres of land a part of an original survey of one third League listed in the name Antonio Calderon . . being thus bounded: Beginning on the South Boundary line of said 1/3 League and 230 varas west of the south east corner of said 1/3 league, where is a stake from which a Hickory bears S 86 W. 3-6/10 and a Red Oak brs N61 w. 5 vs. Thence north 746 vs to a corner from which a Red Oak brs S19 W. 7 vrs and a Red Oak brs S 72 E 15 vrs. Thence west 1210-8/10 to a corner from which a Black Jack, bears East 1 vara and a Red Oak brs N 16 W 1-2/10 vs. Thence south, 746 varas to said south boundary line a corner from which a Red Oak brs N 47 W 12 varas and a Red Oak brs S 62 W 5 vs. Thence east 1210-8/10 vs to the beginning.
This Deed is made in satisfaction of and in compliance with the terms of a Lith (?) Bond executed by me . . on the 19th November A.D. 1866. Witnesses: John F. Baxter, A. Fitzgerald.

Handwritten Deed of Conveyance:

The State of Texas, County of Wood.
. . . I James Warren . . . for and in consideration of the sum of Four Hundred Dollars to me in hand paid by Mrs. Laura A. Jinnings . . do sell . . a certain tract or parcel of One Hundred and Sixty of Lands. Situated lying and being on Indian Creek in said Wood County. About ten miles North East from the town of Quitman the same being a part of the Juan Bantista Chirino League and Labor and Beginning on the South boundary line of a tract heretofore sold & deeded to the said Warren by Barnett and Arnold the same point being the North East corner of Charles Williams Survey of Three hundred and fifty acres taken from the aforesaid League & Labor. thence running South 1440 Varas the South East Corner of the said Charles Williams Survey. Thence East 634 Varas a stake from which a post Oak 6 in. dia. brs North 21degrees E 7 Varas. Also a red Oak 12 in dia brs N 21 degrees West 10 Varas. Thence North passing the South West corner of Thomas Brownings 160 acre Survey 1440 Varas the south East corner of the said tract before mentioned conveyed to me by Barnett & Arnold and on the West boundary line of Brownings 160 acre tract thence West 634 Varas the beginning. . . Witness my hand Scroll seal this December 19 AD 1868. Signed James Warren. Attest: Henry Grogan, Abraham Sudderth.
Recorded in Wood County Clerk's Office at 1 o'clock PM December 19 AD 1868 in Book Y (?) on pages 198 & 199 of Records of Deeds. Signed A. Fitzgerald Clerk Co Ct Wood Co.
Attached is a Certificate of Record: I, M. D. Lankford, Clerk of the County Court . . . recorded in my office, on the 10th day of December 1879 at 11 1/4 AM in Record Book "C", pag 134 & 135. M. D. Lankford by J. T. Craddock, Deputy.

17 Jan 1898. Note. I promise to pay to W. A. Jinkins or bearer four bales of lint cotton weighing 500 lbs each to class middling . . in part payment for . . . 40-1/2 acres of land . . .
28 Jan 1898. Note. I promise to pay to W. M. Messimer or bearer . . Seventy Two and 80/100 dollars. . . In order tp secure the prompt payment of this note I place one vendor's land note which calls for four bales of lint cotton, etc . . .the above note is given for cash advanced on said . . land note . . .In case this note is paid in full at maturity . . land note shall be delivered to J. S. Paschal. Signed J. S. Paschal.
Note. 18 Nov 1898. I promose to pay to E. W. Gilbert . . . One Hundred Ten and no/100 Dollars . . at Winnsboro, Texas . . in part payment for . . land situated in Wood County. . the day conveyed to J. S. Paschal by E. W. Gilbert and wife Marcy Gilbert. . . Signed J. S. Paschal. [Pencil note on back indicates note paid in full Oct 4, 1900.]

Warranty Deed. 1 Feb 1899. C. C. Roberts to B. A. Browning. County of Kaufman. I, C. C. Roberts . . . in consideration of . . one Hundred forty eight and 75/100 Dollars . . sell . .a part of the J. B. Chireno L&L survey in Wood Co., Texas . . a tract of 25 acres sold to J. R. Wilmouth by Anna W. Roberts Dec 22nd 1891 . . .
Nov 24th, 1899. I promise to pay C. C. Roberts . . One hundred and Ninety Six and 15/100 dollars . . . at Beaumont, Texas. This note is given in part payment for . . land . . in Wood County, Texas and being 148-7/10 acres off the J. B. Cherino Survey . . Signed J. S. Paschal. [A payment record on this note indicates that Paschal paid $30 in cash plus a note for $60 and two notes for $196.15 each. Total $482.30. All are indicated as paid.]

Nov 24th, 1900. I promise to pay . . B. A. Browning . . One hundred dollars. This note is given in part payment . . . for 42-1/2 acres of land out of the J. B. Cherino League and Labor . . deeded to me by B. A. Browning and wife. His X Mark. [Cannot make out name.] Attest: J. D. Richardson.
Winnsboro, Texas Aug 10th 1901. I promise to pay L. M. Jennings or bearer the sum of Two Hundred dollars with interest . . at 10 percent . . at Winnsboro, Texas. This note is given in part payment for . . land situated in Wood County as about 7 miles south of Winnsboro and about 10 miles north east of Quitman, being a part of the Juan Bautiste Chirena League and Labor. . . This day conveyed to J. T. Bellomy by L. M. Jennings. [Marked PAID.]
Winnsboro, Texas 10/12, 1901. Received from J. S. Paschal Fifty and 00/100 Dollars on Land. Signed R. P. Horan.
20 Aug 1902. We, F. M Crone and M. E. Crone . . in consideration of one dollar paid by L. J. Bradley and wife and J. F. Nabors and wife . . .sold . .. all that . . land . . on the J. B. Cherino Survey beginning at W. T. Mitchell's S. E. corner. Thence north950 varas corner. Thence east 201 varas to corner. Thence south 950 varas to corner, Thence west 201 varas to the place of beginning containing 60 acres more or less. Notarized by J. D. Richardson, JP. Filed for record 30 May 1912, Deed records Volume 26, page 620. Jonathan Russell, Conty Clerk.

Oct 1st, 1902. I promise to pay to J. F. Nabors . . One hundred dollars . . at Stout. This note is given in part payment for . . land . .on the J. B. Cherino survey 1/2 interest in 60 acres. Conveyed to J. F. Nabors and wife. Signed L. J. Bradley. [Two identical notes, one payable Nov 1, 1903, the other payable Nov 1, 1904]

Warranty Deed 9 Nov 1904. E. K. Crone and wife Mary A. Crone and V. M. Crone to W. T. Mitchell . . in the County of Wood . .on the J. B. Cherino survey . . 60 acres of land
Warranty Deed W. T. Mitchel & R. H. Mitchel wife of W. T. Mitchel to N. H. Short 23 Sep 1905. . . secured by notes . .[same description as Warranty Deed 1 July 1907, Short to Pascal]

Winnsboro 9-23, 1905. I promise to pay W. T. Mitchell . . two hundred dollars, with interest . . at Winnsboro . . This note is given in part payment for . . land . . 60 acres in the J. B. Cherino survey. Being the same land conveyed to N. H. Short by W. T. Mitchell and wife.
Winnsboro 9-23, 1905. I promise to pay Homer Mitchel . . $150.00 . . with interest . . at Winsboro (sic) . . in part payment for .. land . . Wood State of Tex being 60 acres on the J. B. Cherina Survey . . . this day conveyed to N. H. Short by W. T. Mitchell . . .
Stout, Tex 28 Sep 1905. . . I promise to pay L. J. Bradley . . One Hundred Dollars . . at Winnsboro . . part payment for . . 60 acres of the J. B. Cherino survey . . the same land this day conveyed to H. C. Meek by L. J. Bradley & wife . . .
Warranty Deed 1 July 1907. N. H. Short & M. B. Short wife . .of the County of Rains . . for. . Six Hundred Dollars . . paid and to be paid by J. S. Pascal as follows: Three hundred in cash . . and two vendors lien notes . . . one note dated July 1906 and payable October 1, 1907 . . . payable to Luther Mitchel for the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars. One note dated July 1907 . . . to Homer Nitchel for the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
Track of land,. . in Wood County, Texas on the J. B. Chireno survey . . . beginning 390-1/2 Vrs W of the S. W. corner of a survey made for Wm. Moore, now owned by Mrs. Knight . . . Filed in Wood County 30 May 1912, Book 26, pg 619-20.
Warranty Deed 5 July 1907. Homer Mitchell to Dr. J. S. Paschal. I, Homer Mitchell of the County of Wood . . for One Hundred and Fifty Dollars . . . paid by J. S. Paschal . . sell . . tract of land . . J. B. Chireno survey . .60 acres of land . . . all of my undivided 1/4 interest in . . . land.
Warranty Deed 28 Sep 1907. E. A. Pinson to J. S. Paschal. I, E. A. Pinson wife Lillie Pinson of the County of Wood . . for . . One Hundred and Fifty Dollars . . paid by J. S. Paschal . . sell . . land . . about ten miles east from the town of Quitman . . a part of the J. B. Chireno survey . . beginning at the SW corner of a tract of 25 acres, sold to J. T. Wilmoth by Ann R. Roberts . . and on the east line of the Taylor, Lundon 70 acre tract. . . .containing 42-1/2 acres of land.
Warranty Deed 14 December 1907. Luther Mitchell to J. S. Paschal. I, Luther Mitchell of the County of Hunt . . for . . One Hundred and Fifty Dollars . . . paid by J. S. Paschal . . sell . . tract of land . . J. B. Chireno survey . . 60 acres of land . . . all of my undivided 1/4 interest in . . . land.
Merrimac, Tex, 1908. On Nov 9th, 1909 . . . we promise to pay J. S. Paschal . . Two hundred fifty dollars at Stout Wood County Texas. G. W. Echols, M. A.Echols
30 March 1908. Real Estate Deed of Trust Coupon Note. I promise to pay . . . Austin Fire Insurance Company . . . Fifty Dollars in gold coin . . .Signed J. P. Baker.
Deed of Trust, 4 Jan 1909. State of Oklahoma, County of McCurtain.
I, M. A. Echols joined by my husband G. W. Echols, of Lukfata in the County of McCurtain and State of Oklahoma for and in consideration of . . one dollar .. paid by J. P. Harris of Wood County, in the State of Texas, Trustee, . . sell . . all my undivided one half interest in and to 212-1/2 acres of land of the Elijah Elledge Survey in Wood County, Texas, on the waters of Stouts Creek about 12 miles N. of E. from the town of Quitman, and being the old homestead of Mrs. Joe Ashberry deceased, and for description of land . . original patent to heirs of Elijah Elledge dated December 1st 1876 contining 320 acres of land, and recorded in Vol B on pages 66 and 67 in the Deed Records of Wood County, Texas, less 107-1/2 acres sold off the south west corner of said original 320 acre tract and being 107-1/2 acres west of Dry Creek. . . . If the said M. A. Echols and G. W. Echols shall well and truly pay off . . . their promissory note . . . to the order ot J. S. Paschal . . . in the sum of $250.00, payable at Stout . . . and due November 1st, 1909, . . . then this conveyance shall become null and void. Notarized by J. N. Davis on 4 Jan 1909.
Winnsboro, TX July 28th, 1910. On letterhead of Harris, Suiter & Britton, Attorneys at Law: Received of Dr. J. S. Paschall the sum of $20.00 in full settlement of all claims and demands for rents due on the J. M. Lankford Sr. old place and being the land this day conveyed by W. H. Neill and wife to said Dr. J. S. Paschall and wife, for all years whatsoever . . . Signed W. H. Niell and Eliza Niell.
Warranty Deed 28 Jul 1910. W. H. Neill et ux to Dr. J. S. Paschal. We, W. H. Neill and his wife Mrs. Eliza Neill, the said Mrs. Eliza Neill being a daughter and heir at law of the late J. M. Lankford Sr. deceased, of the County of Wood . . . for . . Two Hundred and no/100 Dollars . . sell . . Dr. J. S. Paschall . . all of our entire interest as heirs at law of J. M. Lankford deceased . . . 160 acres out of the Antonio Calderon survey . . . also 35 acres of land part of the J. M. Servantes survey . . . also 30 acres of land . . of the Antonio Calderon survey . . .
Dallas, Texas March 16th, 1911. On letterhead of Law Offices of The Bonners. To Dr. J. S. Paschall, Winnsboro, Texas Route #6, in re #1261 J. P. Baker. We received the money to pay the interest due March 1st 1911 . . . have credited the installment note with $10.00 . . .
25 March 1912. Crop and Chattel Mortage. Reno Fry to J. S. Paschal. To secure my indebtedness to J. S. Paschal of Stout, Texas, . . . Two Hundred and Sisty Dollars . . my promissory note . . payable to J. S. Paschal . . I do . . . hypothecate and convey in trust unto the said J. S. Paschal the following described property . . . : 60 acres cotton, One acre robbon cane, and 300 cords wood . . . delivered to J. S. Paschal in the town of Stout . . .
Paris, Texas May 6, 1912. . . promise to pay to . . Paris Grocer Company at . . Paris, Lamar County, Texas, Four hundred fifty eight and 85/100 dollars. Signed J. S. Paschal
Dallas, Texas May 21, 1912. On letterhead of The Bonner Loan & Investment Co. To Jr. J. S. Pascal. . . receipt of . . interest due March 1, 1912 . . credited the installment note with $10.00 . . .
Warranty Deed: H. C. Meek & wife to L. Bradley & wife. Filed 30 May 1912.
H. C. Meek and wife M. E. Meek . . for the sum of Seven Hundred and Thirty Dollars . . sold to . . L. J. Bradley and wife E. A. Bradley . . all that parcel of land . . in the County of Wood State of Texas about 13 miles NE from the town of Quitman and being Sixty acres of the J. B. Cherina Survey . . containing 60 acres more or less.
G. W. Houston JP Jon Russell, Clerk of the County Court
16 May 1912. On the 1 day of Oct 1912, for value received, the undersigned promise to pay to H. L. Crosby, or order, at Winnsboro, Texas,the sum of Sixteen and no/100 dollars, with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum . . . This note is given to secure part of the purchase money of Mdse . . . to further secure this Note I hereby convey to said H. L. Crosby, the following described property: 1 Bal lint cotton on J. A. Paschal farm near Stout Wood Co., Texas.
Signed D. B. Paschal. Witness Tip R. Anderson, P. O. Winnsboro R6.
Release of Vendor's Lien: Paris Gnd Company to Dr. J. S. Paschal
State of Texas, County of Lamar. By Deed dated June 14th, 1912 recorded in the County Clerk's office of Wood County, Texas, in Book I page 5-6 J. S. Paschal conveyed to J. R. Shelton, Trustee certain real estate . . in the County of Wood . . being the 1st and 2nd tracts, all that certain tract or parcel of land situated in Wood County Texas, a part of the J. B. Chireno survey, the two tracts herein conveyed containing 120 acres . . . Vendor's Lien securing payment of Four Hundred Fifty-eight 85/100 dollars.
R. H. Russell, Notary Public, Lamar Co., Texas
Real Estate Deed of Trust Coupon Note, Dated 24 Dec 1913, at R6, Winnsboro, TX.
. . . pay to the order of The Bonner Loan & Investment Company, at the office of said Company, in the City of Dallas, in Dallas, County, Texas, the principal sum of Two Hundred dollars, in gold coin of the United States . . . with interest thereon from the date hereof at the rate of 8 per cent . . .
Release of Judgment Lien. 11 March 1914. Whereas on the 4th day of Feby, 1913, Plaintiff, Moore Grocery Company, recovered judgment against J. S. Paschal in the District Court of Smith County, Texas for the sum of $1461.56 and $6.35 costs of suit . . . and whereas Moore Grocery Company transferred said judgment and the lien created thereby together with a deed of trust lien securing said amount, to W. D. Suiter, and the said W. D. Suiter being now desirous of releasing the Judgment lien butof retaining the lien created by the deed of trust . . .
Deed of Trust J. S. Paschal to T. P. Barry, Trustee, Benefit of Sanger Brothers. Filed 16 March 1914. Jon Russell, County Clerk, in volume I pg 647-9: I, J. S. Paschall of Stout . . . sell unto T. P. Barry, Trustee . . all that certain tract or parcel of land . .on the J. B. Chireno Survey . . containing 76 acres, bounded on the north by a tract of 100 acres belonging to Mrs. Sallie Elledge, . . on the west by . . land owned by Thos Bellomy - on the south . . owned by John Cox and J. S. Paschal - on the east by F. M. Crone home tract, this tract being on Indian Creek and being the same land owned by Winston Johnson and bought by him from W. J. Richards . . . which deed was burned in the house of F. M. Crone at the time said house was destroyed by fire.
Whereas, on March 30th, 1908 J. P. Baker and wife, Carrie Baker, executed to Geo. W. Jalonick, Trustee, a deed of trust on 247-1/2 acres of land a part of the Jose Maria Servantes 1/2 league survey, situated about 1-1/2 miles west from Merrimack in Wood County, Texas, and being fully described . . in Vol "F" on page 192 of the deed of trust records of Wood County . . securing three notes, being two for $50 each and one for $500, payable to the Austin Fire Insurance Company; and
Whereas, the two notes for $50 each were paid and the $500 note was transferred and assigned by the Austin Fire Insurance Company to Sanger Brothers: and
Whereas said land became the property of J. S. Paschal and on January 20, 1913, J. S. Paschal executed a deed of trust to T. P. Barry, Trustee, on said 247-1/2 acres . . securing three notes for $617.73 payable to Sanger Brothers . . :
Whereas the Bonner Loan and Investment Company has paid Sanger Brothers $2325.50 in full settlement of all of the above described notes . . .
. . . Sanger Brothers, a partnership firm, by Alex Sanger . . hereby release the 147-1/2 acres of land from the lien . . .
Signed 14 March 1914 Alex Sanger. Recorded 23 March 1914 in Volume 35 on pages 359-360. Jonathan Russell, Clerk County Court, Wood County, Texas.
Deed of Trust 3 Feb 1915. J. S. Paschal to W. D. Suiter, Trustee,Benefit of Sam Paschal. I, J. S. Paschal . . sell . . W. D. Suiter, Trustee . . 269-6/10 acres of the J. B. Chireno survey . . . being the same land this day conveyed to Alf Morris trustee for the benefit of W. D. Suiter this deed of trust being a second lien and subject to the one given for the benefit of the said W. D. Wuiter, reference herein is made to the deed of trust given Moore Gro. Co. . . said J. S. Paschal shall well and truly pay . . . one promissory note made by J. S. Paschal payable to the order of Sam Paschal . . . for the sum of fifteen Hundred ninety seven and no/100 dated Dec 18th 1914, due Nov 1st 1915, payable at Winnsboro, Texas . . .
Winnsboro, Texas June 3rd, 1917. . . promise to pay to the order of Sam Paschal at Winnsboro Texas, One Thousand Two Hundred Ninety Six & 40/100 dollars . . . This note is secured by 2nd mortgage on 296-6/10 acres of land, a part of the J. B. Chireno Survey in Wood County, Texas. Signed J. S. Paschal.
Woodmen of the World Clerk's Official Receipt. 1 Apr 1917. received of D. B. Paschal. Camp No. 1083.
In County Court, Wood County, Texas, January Term A.D. 1921.
Winnsboro Grain and Grocery Company vs. J. S. Paschal. No. 1873.
On this the 5th day of January A.D. 1921 . . . the defendant although duly cited . . appeared not, but wholly made default . . . the plaintiff is entitled to recover herein the sum of $143.17. . . . plaintiff . . do have and recover of and from the defendant J. S. Paschal the sum of $743.17, with interest from date of filing . . together with all costs of suit. Recorded in Vol "G" page No. 317, Court Minutes. [No explanation for amount difference.]
Oil and Gas Lease 15 April 1927. . . between J. S. Paschal and wife . . lessor . . and Ross Petroleum Corporation . . lessee . . for . . One and no/100 Dollars, . . leese for . . mining and operating for oil and gas . . land situated in the county of Wood. First Tract: Being 40 acres out of the J. B. Chireno Survey . . Beginning at the N. W. corner of a 40 acre tract owned by I. W. Browning . . . tract owned by Maggie N. Andrews . . . Being 40 acres out of the J. G. Chireno survey . .beginning at the S. W. corner of a tract of 25 acres sold to J. T. Whitworth by Anna W. Roberts December 22nd 1891 and on the east line of the Taylor London 70 acre tract . . .
Citation in Delinquent Tax Suit: The State of Texas vs. J. S. Paschall, et al. . . . Summon J. S. Paschall, W. M. Paschall and Maud L. Paschall . . . to District Court of Wood County . . in the City of Quitman on the 2nd Monday in Oct A.D. 1927 . . . The State of Texas is plaintiff and J. S. Paschall, W. M. Paschall, Maud (crossed out and Mount written) L. Paschall and The "Federal Land Bank of Houston are Defendant . . . against the sum of One hundred Forty Four and 69/100 Dollars for State and County taxes, due plaintiff for the years 1923 and 1924. Being Block No. ___ of the Antonio Calderon Survey of land . . . containing 190 acres of land. Signed V. B. Shaw, Clerk District Court, Wood County, Texas.
Civil Bill of Cost in District Court issued 19 June 1930. D. C. Paschal vs. B. W. Nelson. Total $24.27.
May 26, 1931. Letter from The Federal Land Bank of Houston to Mr. W. M. Paschal, Route #6, Winnsboro. Re: Loan #31090. We have received notice dated May 22nd from Texas Plat Book and Map Company, Quitman, Texas, advising us that they are planning to file a tax suit against you for . . the 1926 taxes which are delinquent in the amount of $15.73. On December 19, 1930 Secretary-Treasurer reported that the 1926 and 1927 taxes were paid. . . If your 1926 taxes are paid . . . furnish us with evidence . . .. Signed A. C. Hargis, Assistant Treasurer.
Oct 16, 1931. Letter to W. M. Paschal, Winnsboro Rte 6. Re: Your Loan No. 31090.
I am instructed by our Board of Directors to write you and request that you appear at my office on Thurs Oct 22, 1931 and pay, or arrange to pay, the amount shown to be delinquent on your loan, or assessed against your land for taxes. Winnsboro National Farm Loan Ass'n, by O. B. Nickers, Secretary-Treasurer.
On letterhead of St. George Hotel, Dallas. March 2, 1932. Received from Clayton B. Prenir (?) and H. J. B__ington Ten Dollars ($10.00) for advance expenses to Oklahoma City as witness in Federal Court Case. Signed Dr. J. S. Paschal
Texas State Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Standard Certificate of Death.
County of Wood, City of Winnsboro.
Full Name of Deceased: Infant of Liddie Wisbrook. Male, White, Single.
Date of Birth March 13, 1932. Date of death 3/18/1932 Age 6 days.
Informant O. O. Wallis, Winnsboro Tex R#3.
Place of Burial: Mount Zion. Undertaker R. H. McCrary Co., Winnsboro, Tex.
8 July 1933. Offer to enter into cotton option-benefit or benefit contracts.
Joe Paschal, Rt 6, Winnsboro, Texas operates a farm 6 S from Winnsboro on Stout Road in Wood County. I have planted cotton . . on 18 acres. In 1932 I harvested no cotton. I estimate that . . . I may reasonably expect to harvest 150 pounds of lint cotton per acre . . in the fall of 1933. . . . I offer to the Secretary of Agriculture on behalf of the United States 7 acres of cotton . . . I elect to take a cash payment of $11.00 per acre, making a total of $77.00 for the 7 acres . . . [A sketch of the farm is attached, mostly unreadable. Total size of farm was107 acres, with 50 acres in cultivated crops.]
23 Mar 1936. Winnsboro Grain and Grocery Co. Sold to Dr. Paschall: 6 Sx meal at $.38; 2 Sx yellow corn at $1.50; 1 Crt Country Gent at $.92.

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Ambassador

Mr. Andrej Benedejcic assumed the duties of the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Moscow on March 14, 2005. He presented his Letters of Credence to the President of the Russian Federation Mr. Vladimir Putin on April 20 and, by non-resident accreditation, to the President of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan Mr. Ovezgeldy Atayev on June 27, to the President of the Republic of Belarus Mr. Alexander Lukashenko on July 29, to the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Mr. Kurmanbek Bakiyev on August 30, to the State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mr. Oralbay Abdykarimov on September 30 and to the President of the Tajik Republic Mr. Emomali Rakhmon on October 25, 2005, as well as to the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Mr. Vladimir Norov on December 18, 2007. He is a career member of the Slovenian diplomatic corps.

Mr. Benedejcic studied at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1996 in Economics. During his university years he witnessed the Slovenian Ten-Day War of Independence and later served in the Territorial Defense of Slovenia, in an infantry battalion. He received his secondary school education at the Cairo American College in Egypt and his elementary instruction at the Russian Primary School of the Embassy of USSR in Beijing, China.

Mr. Benedejcic joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia in 1996 as an analyst in the Research and Planning Department, where he followed Slovenian relations with the United States and NATO. He was also appointed the Secretary of the Slovenian Diplomatic Academy.

In 1997 he was posted to the Embassy of Slovenia in Moscow, where he worked in the Consular Section.

Later in the year, following the election of Slovenia to the Security Council for the period 1998-1999, he joined the Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the United Nations in New York. His portfolio included issues of Sub-Saharan Africa and the UN economic sanctions. At the beginning of 1999 he was named an Alternate Representative of Slovenia to the Security Council.

Mr. Benedejcic returned to Ljubljana in 2000 and became the Assistant to the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry. Later in the year he was posted to the Slovenian Embassy in Washington, DC, where he worked in the Political Section.

At the beginning of 2001 he joined the Office of the Prime Minister of Slovenia as Adviser on International Relations in the rank of State Undersecretary. His portfolio included NATO accession and cooperation with the Russian Federation. He served as a member of the Organizational Committee for the preparation of the Bush-Putin Summit in Slovenia in June 2001. He also took an active part in the preparation of the first official visit of the Slovenian Prime Minister to the Russian Federation in September 2002.

At the end of 2002 he joined the Office of the President of Slovenia as Foreign Policy Adviser to the President. In this capacity he participated in the establishment of the Forum for Slavic Cultures in Ljubljana. He also supervised the organization of several conferences devoted to East-West relations, with a special emphasis on the role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

In June 2004 he was appointed the Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the OSCE in Vienna. As the representative of the incoming Slovenian OSCE Chairmanship he took an active part in the 2nd Annual Security Review Conference, as well as in the visit of the OSCE delegation to Georgia in September 2004 and in the regional meeting of the OSCE Heads of Missions in Almaty in November 2004.

Mr. Benedejcic was born on 21 November 1970 in Ljubljana. He is a member of the Olimpija Fencing Club and the Harvard Club of Russia. He is married and has a daughter.
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LOUISA COUNTY VIRGINIA

Book: CC, Page: 406, Grantor: John R. Hopkins, Grantee: William D. and Manoah L. Langford, Date: 30-Mar-1853
Deed 30 Mar 1853 John R. Hopkins of Louisa atty for Elizabeth D. and Mary E. Gooding of Marion Co., Ohio to William D. and Manoah L. Langford of Louisa $1,083.45; parcel of land bequeath to Elizabeth and Mary Gooding by Paul Wayate, Dec., cont 155 acres adjoining Caroline M. Langford and others Sig. John r. Hopkins Rec. 6 Jun 1853

MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA

Sorry I do not have the citation for these two marriages. When located again these entries will be updated.

Philip Parker and Mary A. Lankford before 1840 King & Queen County, Virginia

Anderson Wright and Elizabeth Langford, 1794, Mechlenburg County, Virginia

Robert L. Langford Obituary

Robert L. Langford
LANGFORD, ROBERT L., 56

Hawthorne - Robert L. Langford, age 56 of Hawthorne, Fl. died peacefully surrounded by family and friends on Tuesday November 27, 2007.

A long time resident of Alachua County, Mr. Langford is a graduate of Newberry High School and U.S. Navy retired. He is also a member of the American Legion Post 91, Trenton, Fl., Disabled Veteran's of America (Life Member) and Fleet Reserve Assoc. Post 25 in St. Augustine, Fl.

Mr. Langford is survived by his Partner, Kirk A. Vorhees of Hawthorne, two daughters, Kimberly L. Langford (Eric Walters) of Gainesville and Erica Carroll (Guy) of Naples. He leaves a loving mother, Mrs. Shirley Bass of High Springs, a brother, James R. Langford (Tory) of Archer, a sister-in-Christ, Mrs. Melissa Taylor (Billy) of Archer, a sister, Mrs. Shirlene E. Harvey (Jimmy) of High Springs, nephews Jimmy D. Harvey, Jr. (Alicia), Richard L. Harvey (Sam), James A. Langford (Tonya), nieces Renee McKenzie and Jennifer Caldwell (Mike), 4 great nephews and 2 great nieces, along with a host of loving friends and worldwide life time acquaintances. Those who precede him in death are Mr. Langford's twin brother, Michael Langford, his father, Virgil 0. Langford, step fathers Lawrence F. Brewer and Tommy Lee Bass.

Funeral services will be held Friday November 30, 2007 at 11:00 am at Milam Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Bronson Cemetery in Bronson, Fl. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Legion Jamerson-Sheffield Post 91 P.0. Box 559 Trenton, Fl.

Arrangements are under the care of MILAM FUNERAL AND CREMATION SERVICES 311 S. Main Street Gainesville, Fl. 32601 (352) 376-5361.
Published in the Gainesville Sun from 11/29/2007 - 12/1/2007.

Note: Robert was a participant in the Langford DNA Project and matched several members who will miss him and his kindness and love of family genealogy.

South Carolina Revolutionary War Documents

Major Warley to Gen. Marion
[Horry MS.]

Camp Congaree, August 11, 1782.

Dear General:

I take the liberty of enclosing you the names of near 500 soldiers, belonging to the 3d regiment, most of whom were absent at the time Charlestown surrendered to the enemy. Many of them are entitled to their discharges; but the greater part are deserters, and I hope will be apprehended and made to serve their times over, at least. A few have already been taken up and tried by a court martial in camp, and sentenced to serve in the South Carolina line two days for every absent one. Whether this kind of punishment is right or not, I am at a loss to know; however, the men seem satisfied with it. I heartily wish this list may enable you to strengthen our line, which is still very weak, as you will see by the annexed return of the detachment under my command. I propose making out a few copies now, in order to send to Gens. Henderson and Pickens, and to some of the militia Colonels. Corporal Gambell unfortunately, a few days ago, killed one of the recruits from Georgetown, by the name of Charles Smith. He was soon after committed to Orangeburgh jail by a magistrate of this district. I have not heard what success the officers recruiting have had lately. Lieuts. Martin and Langford wrote Gen. Huger, about a fortnight ago, that they then had enlisted eight men for the South Carolina line, four of whom are in camp, the rest on furlough. Capts. T. Warley and Levercher have, also, sent from Georgetown nine recruits, and two other soldiers.I am, with the greatest respect, dear General,

Your most obedient humble servant,

FELIX WARLEY, Captain

(From Documentary History of the American Revolution, by Gibbes, Volume 2, p. 206)

Doc ID: Gibbes, v. 2, p. 206
Date: 8/11/1782

Benjamin Lankford of Pittsylvania County Virginia

Dated 22 September 1767
Pittsylvania County, VA, Deed Book 1, pages 54-55

This Indenture made the Twenty Second day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven Between Benjamin Lankford and Winifred his Wife of the County of Pittsylvania of the one part and James Clements of the County aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said Benjamin Lankford and Winifred his Wife for and in Consideration of the sum of Thirty pounds Current Money of Virginia to them in hand Paid by the said James Clements the Receipt whereof they the said Benjamin Lankford and Winifred his Wife do hereby acknowledge and themselves therewith fully Satisfied Contented and paid have Given granted Bargained and sold and by these Presents do ive grant bargain Sell deliver and Confirm to him the said James Clement and to his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns forever One Certain Tract or parcell of Land Containing One hundred and thirty six acres lying on Potters Creek in Pittsylvania County and Bounded as Followeth to Witt, Beginning at Pointers in Braidings line thence along his line south Seventy six degrees East thirty six poles to a white Oak North Twelve degrees East Forty eight poles crossing the creek to a red Oak thence new lines North Eighty degrees East nine poles to a white Oak thence North Twenty five and a half degrees East one hundred and eight Poles to a white Oak thence South Sixty seven degrees East two hundred poles Crossing the Creek to a White Oak North Thirty two degrees West forty eight poles to a pine thence North thirteen degrees East thirty Six Poles crossing two Branches to the Beginning Together with all houses out houses orchards Gardens Woods and Underwoods Water and Watercourses and all other appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining To have and to hold the said Land and Appurtenances unto the said James Clements and unto his heirs and Assigns forever and the said Benjamin Lankford and Winifred his Wife doth further -?- James Clement and agree to and with the said James Clements his heirs that they the said Benjamin Lankford and Winifred his Wife and their heirs do Covenant and agree to and with the said James Clements and his heirs that the aforementioned Land and Premises against all Persons Whatsoever shall and will Warrant and forever by these Presents Defend In Witness whereof the said Benjamin Lankford & Winifred his Wife hath hereunto set their hands and Seals the day and year above Written Signed Sealed and Delivered in Presents of Ben Lankford S S
Benjamin Clement Benjamin Clement Jun. Winifred Lankford, his wife Thomas T Roberson

That on the day and year within Mentioned full Peaceable and Quiet Possession and Livery of Seizen of the within Mentioned Land was by the within Named Benjamin Lankford ; Winifred his Wife given and delivered unto the Within named James Clements and his heirs according to the present true Intent and Meaning of these within written Indenture
Ben Lankford Winifred Lankford Rec.d Sept 22 1767 of James Clements Thirty Pounds Current Money it being the Consideration Money within Mentioned to be paid to me.
Benj.a Clement, Benjamin Clement Ben Lankford At a Court held for Pittsylvania County on the 25th Day of September 1767
This Indenture together with the Memorandum; Livery and Seizen and Reciept herein Indorsed was acknowledged by Benjamin Lankford Party thereto and ordered to be Recorded By the Court

Teste Will Tunstall Cl.P. Court

HISTORY AND REFERENCE BOOK LIST

HISTORY BOOKS

Dobson, David, Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785 (Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1994, 2004) endnotes, bibliography, index. Overview of Scottish migrations to Canada, America, and West Indies. Good jumping off place for further Scottish research.

Langguth, A. J., Union 1812: the Americans who fought the Second War of Independence, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 2006) endnotes, bibliography, index and maps and photos. This book proves that study of history can be enjoyable. Now if only the students in schools across the nation could have an opportunity to study history in a manner such as presented by Mr. Langguth. Besides the usual dates, places and names, Mr Langguth has managed to fill the pages with quotes and bons mots and other thoughtful statements by the players in American history. The political in-fighting and social climate are a teasers and will lead the reader to further materials.


Ramsey, Robert w., Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier 1747-1762 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1964) ISBN 0-8078-0934-9 and ISBN 0-8078-4189-7 (paperback)
Every index (but be watchful for those missed in the generous Footnotes), Maps, Appendices, Tables, Bibliography
Comment: Absolutely a Must Read for those whose families are of Scot/Irish or German ancestry. My copy is highlighted and used to identify families who resided in Pennsylvania and migrated to Virginia frontier and thence to North Carolina where they sunk deep roots. If your family migrated south or west, you will want to read this book. Mr. Ramsey includes information on families such as occupations, marriages and identifies the land on which they settled or the church they attended. Much more, plus historical events.
I cannot praise this book enough. It is a 5-star work. My ancestors are not included in this work so this is an objective commentary.


Brands, H.W., Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times (New York, Doubleday, 2005)
ISBN 0-385-50738-9
Source Notes, Annotated Bibliography, Indexed
Comment: Very readable. Good outline of the events between the end of the American Revolutionary War through the acquisition of Texas. War of 1812, Indian Removal, Seminole Indian War, Life on frontier and settlement of the southwest. Profiles the politicians and other players in the state and federal government and fight to save the Union from British interest in regaining the United States and/or territories west of the Mississippi River. Slave issues, industry vs. agriculture interests, Bank of America and its effect on farmers and the national economy.


Horn, James, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake: Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. This work covers a 100-year period from 1609 to 1710 in the Chesapeake and background history in 16th Century England. Contains many tables, charts, maps, index of names, subjects and places, and citations to documents in Virginia and England.
Comments: The book's footnote bibliography is cumbersome and if republished needs a separate bibliography. One needs to use highlighter and post-its to get back to book titles of interest for further reading. A must-read for genealogists wanting to understand the first settlers and their daily lives in Virginia and Maryland.

Rappleye, Charles, Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, The Slave Trade and The American Revolution, (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006) ISBN-13:978-0-7432-6687-1

One family's rise to prominence in Rhode Island, brothers divided by ideology: slave trade vs antislavery movement. Quaker, Moses Brown 1738-1836 and trader, John Brown 1736-1803.
A bird's eyeview of the period prior to, during and after the American Revolutionary War.

Labunski, Richard, James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights, (New York, NY: Oxford University Press,2006) ISBN-13-978-0-19-518105-0
David Hackett Fischer, Series Editor Pivotal Moments in American History.


Gaines, James R., For Liberty and Glory: Washington, LaFayette, and Their Revolutions. (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007) ISBN-978-0-393-06138-4
I suggest a reading of Rappleye's Sons of Providence noted above for beginning American Revolutionary War students before reading Mr. Gaines' work in that references to problems facing Washington are made without documentation and leaves new readers questioning his statements. His treatment of Washington portrays a man fraught with problems, tasks and duties which would have crushed most men. This book does reveal the harshness of war and creating a nation with self-serving parties under-cutting the work through greed and lust for power.

O'Kelley, Patrick, Nothing But Blood and Slaughter, 4 volumes on Revolutionary War in Carolinas (Blue House Tavern Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59113-458-7 Booklocker.com,Inc.
My comments: Has excellent Notes with source materials; use of battle formations will assist researchers studying a particular battle and the units involved.

McCullough, David, 1776, (Simon & Schuster, 2005) ISBN-13:978-0-7432-2671-4; indexed with source notes and bibliography. Font is easy on elder-eyes.
My comments: Reads like a fast-paced thriller and hard to put down. Covers one year, 1776, and Washington's army in battles of Boston, Brooklyn, New York and Trenton. Maps and portraits of main characters included. Much of the material is from letters of men who served as soldiers which makes this book all the more insightful of the conditions of 1776 and that of the soldiers who suffered mightily.
At was not a Very Good Year.


REFERENCE MATERIAL

Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997) ISBN 0-8063-1543-1
A Must-Have for all genealogists and family researchers and writers.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007)
ISBN 13:978-0-8063-1781-6

Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Professional Genealogy, A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers and Librarians (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001) ISBN 0-8063-1648-9

Doran, Michael F., Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia, 1634-1895 (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Company, 1987) ISBN 0-935931-30-9; phone 1-706-546-6470 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-706-546-6470 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-706-546-6470 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-706-546-6470 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-706-546-6470 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, New Papyrus Company, Athens GA (2003 9th printing)
This atlas is sure to be used frequently by southern researchers following their ancestors from county to county as new lines were drawn.

Halifax County Virginia Documents

Halifax County Order Book 2, Part 1
June, 1757 Court
On the motion of Hugh Moore,Gent. Halifax Sheriff, Benjamin Lankford and Theophilus Lacy took the usual oaths of an Under Sheriff.


November 18, 1757 Court
To Ben Lankford for46 Insolvents.... 2726 Lbs. Tobacco.


Halifax County, Virginia Deeds

17 Oct 1758 Halifax Co. VA, DB 1, p. 528: Luke Smith of Provence of North Carolina to James Farris of Halifax Co., Antrim Parish, for L4, 100 acres bordering Anderson, branch of Allens Creek, end of Rocky Hill, Luke Smith. Signed: Luke Smith, Judah X Smith. Wit: B. Lankford, John Hearness, Joseph X Farris. Rec. 17 Oct. 1758. *

18 Oct 1758 Halifax Co. VA, DB 2, p. 34: Luke Smith of Provence of North Carolina to Joseph Farris of Halifax Co., VA, Antrim Parish, for L50, 632 acres, bordering east branch of Allens Creek to foot of Mountain. Signed: Luke Smith, Judah X Smith. Wit: Benjamin Lankford, John Hearness, James X Farris. Rec. 17 May 1759. *


Halifax County Deed Book 17
William Lankford from William Whitehead Sr. for 20 pounds, 40 acres on north side of Reedy Branch. 16 August 1794.

Halifax County Orders 1764-1766
June Court 1765
George Deatheridge,Plt. vs Peter Bowman, Deft. In Case. Benjamin Lankford of Halifax become special bail for Deft.

Halifax County Orders 1764-1766
August Court, 1765
Philip & George Deatheridge, Plts. vs. Peter Bowman, Deft. In [Case]. Benjamin Lankford of Halifax become special bail for the Deft. And thereupon the said Benjamin Lankford immediately delivered the said Deft.up, in discharge of his recognizance, and the Plt., by his attorney, rays him committed, etc.

Carol Langford Totten Obit of California July 2007

Carol L. Totten January 17, 1916 - July 28, 2007 CAROL LOUISE TOTTEN passed away early on July 28th in La Selva Beach, CA and will be dearly missed by her loving family. Carol was born on July 1`st, 1916 in San Francisco, CA. She lived in Panoche Valley until age 4 and then lived in Hollister, CA. She graduated from San Benito Junior College in 1935. She married the love of her life, Frank Leon Totten and raised her family of three children first in Aromas and then in Watsonville. Carol was a homemaker, a gardener and a wonderful seamstress. She loved caring for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She belonged to the First United Methodist Church of Watsonville. She was a member of the church Women's Circle and Sewing Group. She is predeceased by her husband, Frank Leon Totten, parents Clara and Lloyd Langford, brothers, Leland Langford, and Broderick Langford. She is survived by her daughter, Janis Totten Rice and husband Kent of Santa Cruz; Philip Leon Totten and wife Sandy of Raton, New Mexico; and Jerry Stephen Totten and his wife Linda of Dunsmuir. Also survived by 9 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren which she delighted in being with, and a special brother and sister in law, Clarence and Merna Totten of Watsonville and many nieces and nephews No services are planned. Her cremated remains will be scattered in Panoche Valley at a family gathering. Donations can be made to the First United Methodist Church, 229 Stanford St., Watsonville, CA 95076 or the Hospice Caring Project of Santa Cruz County, 940 Disc Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066. Davis Memorial Chapel of Watsonville is in charge of arrangements. Services provided by: Davis Memorial Chapel

LANKFORD/LANGFORD in Virginia and Massachusetts

Magazine of Virgina Genealogy, Vol. 35, No. 2, page 120

Lankford, Elizabeth, life estate land from will of Hiram Lankford, 1814
Lankford, Hiram, life estate, part of Hiram Lankford deceased land, also
received land from Elizabeth Minor decd. also part of Hiram Lankford
decd. land 1816
Lankford, Hiram of North Carolina, land from a part of Hiram Lankford
decd land, 1816
Lankford, William of Massachusetts, land from Hiram Lankford decd land, 1816

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Gloucester County Virginia
War of 1812 Payroll
Capt. Horatio G. Harwood's Company
21st Regiment, Virginia Militia commanded by Col. Camp from 27 April to
13 September 1814
Hiram Langford, Private, Time of Service: 21 days
Capt. Matthew Gibbs Company
21st Regiment, Virginia Militia commanded by Lt. Col. William Jones from
22 September 1814 to 26 December 1814
Hiram Langford, Private, Time of Service: 1 year 8 days

1810 Gloucester County Virginia Federal Census, Page 407 (stamped)
Isabella Lankford
Hiram Lankford
Eliza Lankford

1850 Plymouth County, Plymouth, Massachusetts Federal Census, Page 159 (stamped)
603/054 William Langford, 64, Farmer, b. Virginia
Betsey, 63, b. Mass.
Mary Ann, 27 b. Mass
John Lankford 27, Carpenter, b. Mass
Celestine, 23, b. Mass
Catherine, 2, b. Mass

1860 Plymouth County, Plymouth, Massachusetts Federal Census, page 120
846/1070 Betsey Langford,73
Mary L. Nickerson, 4
William Langford, 40, Mariner
Mary B. Langford, 41
Ebenezer Nickerson, 32, Mariner
847/1071 John Langford, 37, House Carpenter
Celia S., 31
Katie, 11
Celia S. 8
-?_ E., 4 (first name is written poorly)

William Langford b. Virginia about 1786 married 1807 Betsey Morton

Charles M. Lankford of SC Obit

Charles M. Lankford

Greenville



Charles Maurice Lankford, 81, of 502 West Cliffe Way, died Monday, March 14, 2005.

Born in Greenville County, he was a son of the late Charles Grayson and Laura Miller Lankford.

Mr. Lankford retired from Saco Lowell, and was a member of Westminister Presbyterian Church. He was also a U.S. Navy veteran.

Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Dorothy Bates Lankford of the home; two sons, Rick M. Lankford and wife, Debbie, of Greenville, and Mark Lankford and wife, Lynn Pitts, of Greenville; three sisters-in-law, Mary Lankford of Greenwood, Amalee Bruce of Florida, and Stella Lankford of Greenville; two grandsons, Grant and Chaz Lankford; a granddaughter, Casey Raines; and a great-granddaughter.

Services will be held today at 3 p.m. at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, with visitation from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. prior, at the church. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park.

Memorials may be made to Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 7 Shannon Drive, Greenville, SC 29615; or to the charity of one's choice.

The family is at their respective homes.

Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Downtown.


Published in The Greenville News: 03-16-2005

American States Papers and Congressional Reports

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/summer/state-papers.html

As a result of the above act (and the subsequent joint resolution of March 2, 1833 and
act of June 12, 1858), between 1832 and 1861, Gales & Seaton published 38 volumes.
The volumes contain documents covering the years 1789–1838, although not every
class has documents from the entire period. The collection is titled the American
State Papers and is organized into the following 10 classes or series:

1. Foreign Relations
2. Indian Affairs
3. Finances
4. Commerce and Navigation
5. Military Affairs
6. Naval Affairs
7. Post Office Department
8. Public Lands
9. Claims
10. Miscellaneous

While every class can be a valuable resource for genealogists, this article focuses
on Class VIII (Public Lands) and Class IX (Claims). The tens of thousands of claims
contained in these two classes can provide genealogical information, such as ages of claimants, locations of claims, places of residence, names of spouses, children and other relatives as well as record of the claimants' military service.

Class VIII. Public Lands (1789–1837)

The public domain (public land) is land owned by the federal government that is subject to sale or transfer of ownership under laws passed by Congress. It includes western lands that the original states ceded to the United States as well as acquisitions from foreign governments. Congress was therefore initially responsible for many matters relating to the settlement of land in the public domain. The eight volumes of the Public Lands Class record thousands of diverse land claims and transactions regarding public domain, including military bounty lands, preemption rights, claims by refugees, agreements with Indian Nations, and the settlement of private land claims on public domain that the United States acquired from foreign governments.

Public land states are states that the federal government formed from the public domain. The Public Lands Class deals directly with land claims in these public land states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

The original 13 states and Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and West Virginia have no public domain. However, several of these states ceded land to Congress for the benefit of the United States. This land then became part of the public domain. The Public Lands Class contains information on these states or their cessions to the United States: Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia.

To successfully claim land located within the public domain, one had to prove right to the land as recognized under public land laws. This meant that the claimant often had to produce evidence or at least explain the basis for the claim. One type of land claim, private land claims on public domain that the United States acquired from foreign governments, often offers researchers a unique opportunity to gain detailed information on the claimants and their families. The British, French, and Spanish governments granted a great deal of land within their American holdings to the inhabitants prior to the acquisition of the territories by the United States. After taking control of the land, the U.S. Government had to validate the titles originally granted by foreign authorities before the claimant could have legal possession of the land.

Although some claims offer little more than name of claimant and location of claim, others, such as Thomas Bassett's claims for two properties along the Tombigbee River in the Mississippi Territory (present-day Alabama), contain detailed information on the claimant and his family. In 1804 Bassett petitioned the "Commissioners appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed the third day of March, 1803, for receiving and adjusting the claims to lands south of Tennessee and east of Pearl river" for rights to these two properties that his family had previously owned under British and Spanish grants. As with many land claims presented before boards of commissioners or other federal agencies, the board forwarded the records to Congress. To prove his case, Bassett submitted notarized depositions, translations of Spanish petitions and titles, surveys, and other documents, which supply information on his family dating back to 1780. This documentation accompanying these two claims builds an interesting portrait of the Bassett family.

The entry for Bassett's claim in the American State Papers led to land plats in records of the General Land Office. (Records of the Bureau of Land Management, RG 49) [full image]

In 1780 the Bassett family received from the British Government of West Florida grants for two properties. Indians killed Thomas Bassett, the father of the family, on or near his land in 1781. He was about 37 years old. His wife, Lucy, and two sons, Nathaniel and Thomas, survived. The region came under Spanish control in 1783 as a result of Spain's support for the United States during the American Revolution. In June 1787, the Spanish governor of the territory, Don Stephen Miro, signed and confirmed property and rights to Nathaniel Bassett, son of the late Thomas Bassett. Thomas Bassett, son of the late Thomas Bassett and Nathaniel's brother, was approximately 21 years old in 1787.

In 1788 the Bassett family went to New Orleans to manage business in the area. In their absence, the Bassett family allowed a William Powell to live on a section of their land. Lucy Bassett then suffered a series of accidents. The government seized her property, including the Bassetts' titles to their land, and placed the titles into the public deposit in New Orleans. A fire there in 1794 destroyed the original British and Spanish titles to the two properties.

On July 7, 1800, Nathaniel Bassett wrote to the Spanish government to confirm his title to the land, which had become part of the United States in 1798. By August 4, 1800, Spain had confirmed Nathaniel Bassett's petition. On March 19, 1804, Thomas Bassett, acting as administrator for his late brother, Nathaniel, petitioned the U.S. Government for the rights to his family's lands. The Board of Commissioners confirmed the land to Thomas Bassett, stating that each claim was "supported agreeably to the requirements of the law." Such detail and quantity of family information depicts the true value of the American State Papers to researchers interested in family and social history of the early American period.

Congress also was responsible for the relief of veterans of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 and passed many acts relating to bounty land, pensions, and other assistance to the soldiers and their families. Congress passed several public acts regulating veterans' claims that established common eligibility requirements and delegated to the secretary of war the responsibility for administering the provisions.

Many veterans and their heirs, however, brought their claims directly to Congress for adjudication, and Congress passed private acts to reward these individuals. Bounty land claims within the Public Lands volumes can supply information about the claimants' military service and subsequent lives. For many veterans of these two wars, the bounty land claims supplement the compiled military service records and pension bounty land files available at the National Archives.

As Abraham Forbes's bounty land claim shows, the American State Papers can be especially valuable in locating information relating to the military service and bounty land records of veterans who do not appear in War Department files. Abraham Forbes does not have a compiled military service record, pension application, or bounty land application at the National Archives, and he is not listed on the army register of enlistments. However, a report from the House of Representatives Committee on Private Land Claims in the American State Papers reveals:

That said Forbes was a citizen of the United States, and removed to Upper Canada prior to the last war; that he joined the troops of the United States, and was employed as a spy, and had the entire confidence of the officers of the United States, and performed many valuable and important services to the United States in that character; that he had been promised a handsome remuneration by Col. Christie, whose premature death perhaps, prevented any communication to the government in behalf of said Forbes; that he acted with the United States troops until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged. . . .

In recognition of these services, Congress ultimately passed a bill granting Forbes 320 acres of land.

After locating a claim in the American State Papers, the researcher can also contact the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives for assistance in finding more information on the claim in congressional records. For many of the claims that appear in the American State Papers, there is an original petition and supporting documentation in House and Senate committee files. To contact the Center, write to Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20408-0001 (telephone 202-357-5350).

Class IX. Claims (1789–1823)

Congress derives its authority for settling claims against the United States from the first clause of Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.

This duty to pay the debts of the United States led Congress to assume many responsibilities in settling or overseeing the adjudication of claims against the United States. The single volume of the Claims class contains a wide array of non–land-related claims from 1789 to 1823, including pensions, property destroyed by the enemy, relief of army contractors, militia claims, compensation for wages, and numerous other unique situations. The assortment of claims in this volume offers researchers a rare glimpse into the daily lives of Americans living at that time.

Congress authorized the Treasury Department to settle many types of claims against the U.S. Government. If the Treasury Department rejected a claim, the claimant's only recourse was to appeal directly to Congress. One example of congressional oversight of the adjudication of claims by the Treasury Department, titled "Claims Barred by the Statutes of Limitations," appears in the Claims volume. On December 13, 1810, the secretary of the treasury sent to the Senate a list of all the claims for which the Treasury Department had adjusted, allowed, and issued certificates of registered debt under an act of March 27, 1792. The act was responsible for "providing for the settlement of the claims of persons under particular circumstances barred by the limitations heretofore established." The list contains the names of almost 1,500 Revolutionary War servicemen along with the date of certificate, statement number, explanation of service, date on which interest commenced, and amount of money issued for each individual.

The Claims volume of the American State Papers proves particularly valuable in the case of pre-1800 Revolutionary War pensions. A fire in the War Department on November 8, 1800, destroyed all Revolutionary War pension and bounty land applications that had been submitted up to that date. Much information on these applicants would have been lost were it not for several War Department reports based on original applications that the secretary of war sent to Congress between 1792 and 1795. The lists for 1792, 1794, and 1795 are printed in the Claims volume and contain name, rank, disability, date and location where disabled, residence, pension entitlement, and other remarks.

Take, for example, Thomas Toms, a private in Capt. George Maxwell's company of militia. There is no compiled military service record for Toms at the National Archives, and most of the information regarding him in Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files (National Archives Microfilm Publication M804) comes directly from the American State Papers.

An entry for Thomas Toms appears on the 1794 list of Invalid Pension Claims for Virginia. (American State Papers) [full image]

His entry on the 1794 list of invalid pensioners for Virginia in the Claims volume states that he lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. He was wounded in 1780 at King's Mountain and claimed a pension relating to the following disability:

Severely wounded on the head, being scalped on the left temple with a stroke from a hatchet, which does much injury to that eye; is also disabled in two fingers on the left hand, and wounded in the right hip and neck; all which he received in the service of the United States, against Major Ferguson, on King's mountain.

The examining physician gave no recommendation for pension entitlement.

Locating and Using the Records

The value of the American State Papers in conducting genealogical research is enhanced by the availability of the records and their ease of use. Although each volume of the American State Papers contains an index, their fragmentary nature has led to the creation of more comprehensive indexes.

In 1972 Phillip W. McMullin created a complete name index to the nine volumes comprising Class VIII (Public Lands) and Class IX (Claims) titled Grassroots of America; A Computerized Index to the American State Papers: Land Grants and Claims 1789–1837 with Other Aids to Research (Salt Lake City: Gendex Corporation, 1972). By listing all the volume and page references for each name entry, the index allows researchers to locate individuals or families throughout the volumes.

The Congressional Information Service (CIS) U.S. Serial Set Index, 1789–1969 (Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1975–) also indexes the American State Papers. Although the CIS index is not as comprehensive as Grassroots of America for individual names, it can lead to information in the other classes of the American State Papers or the U.S. Serial Set that is not contained in Classes VIII and IX.

The Library of Congress American Memory web site offers a full-text collection of the American State Papers online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsp.html, and the table of contents and index for each of the volumes are searchable. Volumes 1–3 of the Public Lands Class that appear on the web site were printed by Duff Green, and the page numbers may not correspond with the Gales & Seaton version.

The thousands of claims in the Public Lands and Claims classes of the American State Papers, complemented by the above-mentioned indexes, provide researchers with a rich resource for locating information on individuals living in America from 1789 to 1837. The American State Papers, Grassroots of America, and the CIS Congressional Masterfile 1, 1789–1969, a CD-ROM containing the CIS U.S. Serial Set Index, are available in the Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) at the National Archives Buildings in Washington D.C., and College Park, Maryland. The American State Papers, various reprints, and other related books are available at libraries around the country.

For more information on researching claims at the National Archives, consult Anne Bruner Eales and Robert M. Kvasnicka, eds., Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives of the United States, 3rd ed. (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 2000). Chapter 15, Land Records, covers various topics relating to land claims and grants on public domain of the United States. Chapter 16, Claim Records, provides detailed information on researching claims against the U.S. Government at the National Archives.

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Chris Naylor is an archives technician in the Research Support Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. He earned B.A. degrees in history and German from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Generously Contributed by Rose Cranston

Glouster County Virginia

GLOUCESTER COUNTY, VA - DEEDS - William Hampton, 25 Mar 1651
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Citation:
Patent Book No. 2
1643-1651
Page 311
William Hampton

To all etc. whoever etc Now Know yee that I the said
Sr. Wm. Berkeley etc. give and grant unto William Hampton
seven hundred acres of land lyeing on the East side of the
Eastern most river in Mockjack Bay begining on the South side
of a Creeke at a marked tree and running East by North three
hundred and twenty poles South by East three hundred and
fifty poles west by South three hundred and twenty poles
and North by west three hundred and fifty poles to the river
by the aforesaid Marked tree, the said Land being due unto the
said William Hampton by and for the transportation of fourteen
persons into the Colony etc. to have and to hold etc. which
payment if to be Made Seven years after the first grant or
Sealing thereof and not before etc. Dated  the 25th
of March 1651

Thomas Smith Jeremy Edes  Wm. Galoman John Wattkins
Richard Cary  Philad: Hampton        Wm Davis
Hugh Bromly John Ash            Lymon Vaughan Ailce Walker
Wm. Bozeman    John Langford           Wm. Bozeman

Submitter Note: The above is translated from the early script
of the Colony of Virginia and spelling is retained as in the
original document.

Copyright 2004 by Poldi J. Tonin

Davie County North Carolina

Map of Land Grants in Davie County, North Carolina
http://www.pastseeker.com/boone/misc/yadkin-main.shtml
Date of access to this map was 16 January 2003

Entry of land plat for John Lankford dated 1790

Land is situated southeast of Mocksville, the county seat and between two large creeks. These may be Rockie Creek and Peelers Creek. Print is very light and hard for me to read.

Davie County formed in 1836 from Rowan County is bordered by Rowan, Iredell, Yadkin, Forsyth and Davidson counties. For earlier documents search Rowan County records.

Warren County North Carolina Deeds

Warren County Deed Books
Volume 11, 1790-1791 page 72,
August 24, 1786: George Langford to William Bartlett; 37 acres recorded 3 December 1790. Samuel (x) Bartlett, witness.

Volume 13, 1792-1796, page 319
George Langford to Samuel Bartlett, for 46 pounds, 46 acres on William and Samuel Bartlett's lines to John Clark's to Smith's Creek, Recorded 1 February 1796.

Bath County North Carolina

William L. Saunders, Secretary of State, collector and editor, Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. II 1713 - 1728, published 1886, 547 - 548

Extract:
Case against Mary Cotton, spinster, on 20th day of November 1723, in Bath Town in County of Bath in province of North Carolina, found guilty of petty larceny of goods the property of Roger Kenyon. On the Petition of Elizabeth Langford, Eleanor Clarke, Edward Harrington and Martha Morris for attendance and as evidences for the King it is order that Mary Cotton pay for three days attendance at half of crown per day for four days for travelling at 20 pence per day and 10 shilling ferrying each in all 24 shilling and 2 pence each.

War of 1812 Records at National Archives

Winter 1991, Vol. 23, No. 4

Genealogical Records of the War of 1812
By Stuart L. Butler

National Archives records created during and after the War of 1812 offer the genealogist a diverse and fertile ground in which to obtain invaluable family information.1 These records were created by a variety of government agencies to include various bureaus and offices of the War of 1812, Interior, and State departments in response to specific federal laws. Most Department, particularly those generated by the Adjutant General's Office (Record Group 94). The records are now serviced by the General Reference Branch and the Military Reference Branch of the Textual Reference Division. Unlike many records of genealogical value from the Revolutionary - era records in the National Archives having genealogical value were created by the War War era, similar records for the War of 1812 period have not been microfilmed and are not available through interlibrary loan. The notable exceptions are a number of name indexes for the compiled military service records and pension application files.2

Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files

Perhaps the most genealogically rich records for this period are the pension application files in the records of the Veterans Administration (Record Group 15). There are two primary series of pension application files that relate to War of 1812 veterans. The first series ("Old Wars") consists of pensions to veterans of the army, navy, and Marine Corps based on service resulting in death or disability from the end of the Revolutionary War period up to the Civil War. The files include not only information about the veteran's service but also are likely to contain family information such as children's names and data about the widow's maiden name and marriage. The records are arranged alphabetically by veteran and can be accessed by using the name index that has been microfilmed as Old War Index to Pension Files (T316, 7 rolls). The index also indicates the veteran's name, unit, and state from which the claim was made, and type of claimant, whether widow, child, or other heir. Related records (YI), also arranged alphabetically, pertain to navy and Marine Corps veterans.

Pension application files for most War of 1812 veterans, however, will be found in the second series of pension files, i.e., those based on the acts of 1871 and 1878. These acts, based on length of service alone, relate mostly to militia veterans called to federal service. The 1871 act provided pensions to veterans who had served at least sixty days or to their widows if they had married before 1815. The 1878 act provided pensions to those veterans, or their widows, who only served fourteen days. By the time these acts were passed, most applicants were widows or minors rather than veterans themselves. A typical file usually contains the soldier's or widow's application file, a statement of service usually provided by the Pension Bureau, and other papers prepared by the Third Auditor's Office. Of the two, the widow's or minor's application is potentially the richest in genealogical information. This is because the widow had to provide proof of marriage, including the date or place of marriage, and usually the maiden name. Important data about marriages before 1815 found in some of the files may not be available anywhere else. Interfiled among these pensions in some cases are some bounty land application files. While the pension files are not on microfilm, an informative index showing much data has been microfilmed as Index to War of 1812 Pension Application Files (M313, 102 rolls). Supplementing the index is a remarried widow's card index, which covers the period 1816 - 1860. The alphabetically arranged index cards show the new remarried name of the veteran's widow and the former veteran's name.

Although the process is somewhat involved, it is sometimes possible for a researcher to determine when a pension payment was last paid to a veteran or his heir. Among Veterans Administration records are the field record books (1805 - 1912), which can be used to determine when pension payments were made and when they stopped. To extract such information, one must know under which act a veteran was entitled to receive a pension and the city where the agency was located paying the pensioner. The search can be time-consuming, but information indicating the pensioner's date and place of death could be the reward.

War of 1812 veterans, and later their widows and heirs, could also apply for bounty land under the act of May 6, 1812, and a variety of subsequent federal laws. Most veterans were entitled to 160 acres, but in a few cases some received 320 acres, called double-bounties. Until 1842, the land lay within the states of Illinois, Arkansas, and Missouri, and until 1852 the land was not transferable. A typical bounty land application warrant file contains the veteran's name, age, unit, residence, period of service, and if applicable, the widow's (or heir's) name, age, and place of residence. Applications for bounty land claimed under different legislative acts will be filed under a single veteran's name. In many cases, bounty application files from regular army, navy, and Marine Corps veterans consist only of a discharge certificate. These files are arranged alphabetically by name of veteran, but they are unindexed. Researchers of these files should search the pension files in addition to searching the more numerous bounty land files. Less informative are the actual bounty land warrants, which were not issued to the veteran or his heirs. They do show, however, where the land to which the veteran was entitled was located and the date and name of the person to whom the land was given. Since many veterans sold their rights to bounty land to other persons, their names do not appear on many of the warrants. The warrants have been filmed on War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrants, 1815 - 1858 (M848, 14 rolls).3

Military Service Records

The National Archives has some kind of military service record for most soldiers who served during the War of 1812. Genealogical information found in these records varies greatly depending on the type of service rendered. Naval service for enlisted men is more difficult to establish, especially when the soldier was an enlisted man. Establishing service for a Marine Corps soldier is somewhat easier.

Compiled Military Service Records. The great majority of soldiers who served during the War of 1812 were volunteers, or members of state militia who were federalized for portions of the war period. There were also volunteer units directly raised by the federal government. The service records of these soldiers consist of compiled military service records or those records of service that were compiled from the original muster and pay rolls by the clerks in the Adjutant General's Office after the war (Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94). The records are arranged by state or federal volunteer unit and thereunder alphabetically by name of soldier. A microfilmed index to these records is available on Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the War of 1812 (M602, 234 rolls). The actual service records have not been filmed. The service records show the soldier's name, rank, regimental unit (usually showing the last name of the regimental commander), the company commander's name, dates of service and pay, whether the soldier was a substitute, date of discharge, and sometimes, distance to the soldier's home from place of discharge. Other information such as date of death, if applicable, and periods of sickness, if recorded on the muster rolls, is noted. The service record reflects the information found on the original muster and payrolls; all information from these original rolls has been transferred to the compiled service record, so there is no need to examine the original rolls to obtain additional information. Because so many volunteers served only a few days or weeks, the information available is frequently meager. These records will not ordinarily show place of birth, age, or parents' names. They may show, however, disciplinary action resulting in dismissal or court-martial, if such information was noted on the muster roll. Compiled service records for officers show much the same information but usually include original vouchers and receipts for supply, pay, and transportation. Some of these papers may enable a researcher to determine where a unit served during the war.4

Regular Army Enlistment Registers and Papers. If a soldier's name does not appear in the index for volunteer soldiers, he might have served in the regular army. If the soldier served as an officer in the U.S. Army during this period, his name should be in Francis B. Heitman's Historical Register and Dictionary of the U.S. Army (1903). There are no consolidated "service records" for officers before 1863. Aside from entries in Heitman, one can examine the correspondence of the Adjutant General's Office for pertinent documentation relating to these officers. Most of the names of regular army soldiers who served during the War of 1812 appear in the fifteen volumes of enlistment registers that show the names of soldiers enlisting for the period 1798 - 1815. Despite the dates indicated, most of the names in these registers are for those who enlisted during the War of 1812 period. The names are arranged alphabetically by the initial letter of surname, and thereunder alphabetically by given name, e.g., the name of Aaron Atkins would come before George Abbott, regardless of when each enlisted. The registers are somewhat more useful to the genealogist than the information provided on the compiled service record because they can show the age, place of birth (either city, county, or state), physical description (to include height), occupation, place and date of enlistment. The registers also indicate when, where, and under what circumstances the soldier was discharged. These registers were compiled in the late nineteenth century by the Adjutant General and are based on a variety of original records such as muster and payrolls, inspection and descriptive rolls, and other miscellaneous records in the Adjutant General's Office. As with the compiled service records, the information on these original records was transferred to the register, so no additional information is available from exarraning the original records. Fortunately for the researcher, these registers have been microfilmed on Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798 - 1914 (M233, 81 rolls). Another series of records, the enlistment papers, may also be useful. Unfortunately, the original enlistment papers for the War of 1812 period are fragmentary and incomplete. The papers are arranged alphabetically for the period 1798 - 1894. Much of the same information, however, can be found in the registers of enlistments.

Other Military Records. The Adjutant General's Office also includes several useful, but lesser known, series of records that may prove useful to the genealogist. The certificates of disability for the War of 1812 are documents signed by a surgeon attesting to the disability and discharge of regular army soldiers. Arranged by regiment and then by name, the certificates include information such as name, age, rank, unit, enlistment date, place of birth, and personal description. If no enlistment register entry exists for an individual, then this series might help. In addition to the large series of enlistment papers already discussed, a small series of enlistment papers and discharges also exists for the War of 1812 period. If no information is found in the larger series, then these papers should be examined. Often overlooked, but potentially useful, are Miscellaneous Manuscripts of the War of 1812 and its accompanying name index. The manuscripts contain a great variety of information about regulars, volunteers, and civilians. The records are arranged numerically and appear to be grouped by state and federal units. Among the records are vouchers, returns, receipts for supplies signed by officers in the field, and impressment of articles and services from civilians such as ferrymen, landlords, farmers, and seamstresses. The records appear to document mostly the activities of volunteer units and should be searched whenever the subject is a volunteer soldier, especially an officer. Records of the Adjutant General's Office also contain several small series of records relating to American POWs originally compiled by the Navy and Treasury departments. These are indexed and can be useful in determining if an American soldier was a POW in Canada. Records of the Judge Advocate General (Army) (Record Group 153) contain the proceedings of general courts-martial from the War of 1812 period for both volunteers and regulars. A card name index and a computerized name index give access to these records. The proceedings can provide an interesting and fascinating glimpse into army life.

Naval and Marine Corps Records

Records of naval officers' service are more numerous than those for enlisted personnel. The names of naval officers are printed in a useful work by R. W. Callahan, List of Officers of the Navy of the U.S. and the Marine Corps From 1775 to 1900 (1901). The basic National Archives record showing naval and Marine Corps officer service in the War of 1812 can be found in Abstracts Of Service Records of Naval Officers ("Records of Officers"), 1798 - 1893 (M330, 19 rolls, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Record Group 24). Of the fifteen volumes filrned in this series, volumes D and E show officers' records of service for the War of 1812. The entries are arranged chronologically and indicate the dates of acceptance, resignation, appointment, assignment, transfer, promotion, and ships on which the officer served. Other records containing additional information about navy and Marine Corps officers can be found in Records of the Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library (Record Group 45). There are several series of records for the War of 1812 period that show letters of resignation (three volumes), letters indicating receipt of commissions and enclosing oaths of allegiance "acceptances" (five volumes), and letters from midshipmen accepting commissions and enclosing oaths of allegiance (one volume). There are no such compiled summaries to show service for naval enlisted men for this period. If the ship on which a seaman served is known, the muster and payrolls for that vessel can be examined to determine the dates of enlistment and service. If the ship is not known, then the research becomes laborious because the muster and payrolls of all ships operating at that time must be searched, and the names on the rolls are not necessarily arranged alphabetically. The best sources, however, for ascertaining naval service are the pension and bounty land application files. If a seaman applied for one of these benefits, the ship's name and dates of service will be indicated on the application, making the search for pertinent muster rolls less time-consuming.

Records of the U.S. Marine Corps (Record Group 127) include comprehensive card indexes listing all officers and enlisted men who served before 1900. The information is slim, but they do show the dates of appointment and enlistment. There are, however, service records for enlisted Marine Corps personnel for the period 1798 - 1895. These papers are arranged by year of enlistment, thereunder by initial letter of surname, and consist of enlistment and other papers that might establish date of service, age, place of birth, and occupation. The size rolls (similar to muster rolls) for the period 1798 - 1906 supply much the same information as the army enlistment registers, but one must know the approximate date of service to use them. The record group also contains card indexes showing names of Marine Corps casualties for the War of 1812 period.

Other Naval Records. Record Group 45 also contains a large series of records relating to naval and other American prisoners of war captured and incarcerated by the British in England, Nova Scotia, or on cartel POW ships. The lists show the names, dates of capture, ship from which taken, and the location of the prisoner (Subject File, 1775 - 1910, series RA). Additional records relating to POWs are the registers of U.S. prisoners in Halifax, Barbados, and Jamaica, which consist of three volumes listing name, date, and place of capture; and a register of U.S. prisoners of war at Quebec that shows name, ship from which taken, place of birth, and date of discharge. An interesting series of records (Subject File, RN) shows the names of British aliens or other noncitizens reporting to U.S. marshals under federal law. These are apparently copies that were sent to the State Department and include such information as name of alien, residence, names of wife and children, place of birth, age, and occupation. Two other series of records in Record Group 45, a register of aliens in New York (1813) and a register of suspected aliens along the Atlantic Coast (1813), supplement the larger series.5 Records of the Judge Advocate General (Navy) (Record Group 125) may provide sources of information concerning naval or Marine Corps personnel summoned before courts of inquiry or other disciplinary courts-martial for this period. Name indexes as well as the proceedings of such courts can be found on Records of General Courts-Martial and Courts of Inquiry of the Navy Department, 1799 - 1867 (M273, 198 rolls).

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Stuart L. Butler is a former assistant chief of the Old Military and Civil Branch of the National Archives and Records Admminstration. He received his M.A. from Florida Atlantic University.

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Notes

1. There are several National Archives publications that researchers should examine before using some of the records described herein. These are: Using Records in the National Archives for Genealogical Research (General Information Leaflet [GIL] No. 5, 1990); Military Service Records in the National Archives of the United States (GIL No. 7, 1985); Information About the National Archives for Prospective Researchers (GIL No. 30, 1990); and Genealogical Records in the National Archives (rev. 1985). Many of the microfilm publications are available in the Regional Archives System throughout the United States. To identify the facility nearest you, see the list in the back of Prologue or refer to The Regional Archives System of the National Archives (GIL No. 22, 1991). Titles of microfilm publications containing relevant War of 1812 - era indexes and records can be found in National Archives Microfilm Resources for Research: A Comprehensive Catalog (1990) and, more specifically, Genealogical and Biographical Research: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications (1983) and Military Service Records: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications (1985).

2. A good genealogical overview of the period is George K. Schweitzer, War of 1812 Genealogy (1988). Recent historical works relating to the war in general are John K. Mahon, The War of 1812 (1972); J.C.A. Stagg, Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early Republic, 1783 - 1830 (1983); and Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (1989). In addition, many states have published rosters of their troops called to duty during the War of 1812. Many of these volumes are out of print, but they can be consulted in the appropriate state archives. The National Archives has some of these publications, but the best source is probably the Local History and Genealogy Room of the Library of Congress.

3. See Laws of the United States Governing the Granting of Army and Navy Pensions (1923).

4. Copies of compiled military service records can be obtained through the mail by completing NATF Form 86. Copies of pensions and bounty land warrant application files can be obtained using NATF Form 85. Each record must be requested on a separate form. Forms and information about other records can be obtained by contacting Old Military and Civil Records (NWCTB), National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408.

5. Related State Department records are on "War of 1812 Papers" in the Department of State, 1789 - 1815 (M588, 7 rolls).