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10th District 1st Section, Cherokee

1830 Map of Cherokee Territory in Georgia

The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 10th District, 1st Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Henry Tillman, 394th, Montgomery.2 Jesse Ricketson, Jr., Stewart’s, Warren.*3 Lavisa Bags, w., Gunn’s, Jefferson4 Thomas Jerman, 600th, Richmond.5 Sarah Terrell, w., Chambers’s, Gwinnett.6 Jesse Watson, Sinclair’s, Houston.7 Tucker Malding, George’s, Appling.8 Charles Hammond, Thaxton’s, Butts.*9 Jonathan Prewit, Smith’s, Madison.10 George F. Geyer, 9th, Effingham.*11 Ishmael Broome’ Lynn’s, Warren.*12 Robert Hamilton, Hamilton’s, Hall.*13 Uriah Sparks, M’Culler’s, Newton*14 Edmond Raines, r. s., … Read more

9th District, 1st Section, Cherokee

The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 9th District, 1st Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 James Wood, Sen., Mayo’s, Wilkinson.*2 Aug. & Nancy Richardson, ors., Britt’s, Randolph.3 Archibald Nicholson, Hill’s, Stewart.*4 James Lawson’s ors., Smith’s, Wilkinson.5 John Phillips, Hodges’s, Newton.6 Henry Varnadore, r. s., 535th, Dooly7 Hardy Johnson, sol., 55th, Emanuel.8 Virginia M. F. Dousset, w., Valleau’s, Chatham.9 Carter Allen, Stephens’s, Habersham.10 Brooks Sparks, Shattoxe’s, Coweta.11 Selah Culpepper, Show’s, Muscogee.12 Jenkins’s six orphans, 404th, Gwinnett.13 … Read more

8th District, 1st Section, Cherokee

The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 8th District, 1st Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Riley Allen, Martin’s, Newton.2 Henry Brewer, sol., Brewer’s, Monroe.3 William H. Wood, Curry’s, Merriwether.4 Alexander Heirington, 37th, Striven.*5 Henry Long, 114th, Hancock.*6 Colin A. Hall, Dixon’s, Irwin.7 John M. Copeland, Carswell’s, Jefferson.*8 Thomas Pinchard’s ors., 466th, Monroe.*9 James Wheeler; Sen., Lay’s, Jackson.*10 James Hadaway, 293d, Jasper.11 Robert Houston, Tower’s, Gwinnett.*12 Samuel May, Adams’s, Columbia.13 John Norris Miller’s, Jackson.14 James M. … Read more

7th District, 1st Section, Cherokee

The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 7th District, 1st Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Sarah Moore, w., Parham’s, Warren.2 William T. Nelums, Clark’s, Elbert.*3 John G. Town’s or., Wilson’s, Pike*4 David Dickson, Hampton’s, Newton.5 James Cook’s ors., Curry’s, Wilkinson.6 Arthur G. Holmes, Dean’s, Clarke.7 William Carter, widower, 7th, Chatham*8 Robert Shearman, Jr., Freeman~s1 Jasper.9 William Wallace’s ors., Hearn’s, Butts.10 Henry Hodges, 687th, Lee.*11 David Smith, Talley’s, Troup.12 Archibald Martin, Martin’s, Jones.*13 Thomas Williams, Coffee’s, … Read more

6th District, 1st Section, Cherokee

The list below contains the names and residence of all the fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of the 6th District, 1st Section, of Cherokee country. This list is part of a larger compilation called the Cherokee land lottery. 1 Arthur Turner, Summerlin’s, Bulloch.*2 Miles Shepherd, Hitchcock’s, Muscogee.3 Absalom Ogletree, Ball’s, Monroe.4 Aaron Palmer, Chastain’s, Habersham.5 Thomas Duren, sol., Newman’s, Thomas.*6 William A. Stewart, 559th, Walton.7 George W. Bowen, Wolfskin’s, Oglethorpe.8 Edmund Bradley, Curry’s, Merriwether.9 David Martin, Martin’s, Hall.10 William C. Paramore, 271st, M’Intosh.*11 Mary Mays, w. of sol., M’Dowell’s, Lincoln.12 George Barlow, Swinney’s, Laurens.13 Charles L. Dupree, 277th, Morgan*14 … Read more

Strong, James Marvin – Obituary

James Marvin Strong, 70, of Hoxie, Kan., a former Baker City resident, died Dec. 14, 2006, at his home. His funeral was at 2 p.m. today at the Mickey-Leopold Funeral Home at Hoxie. Pastor Jim Martin officiated. Burial was at the Hoxie Cemetery. Military rites were conducted by Fort Riley soldiers. Mr. Strong was born on Feb. 24, 1936, at Baker City to Ellis and Helen Baisley Strong. He married Ruby Lorna Procter on Aug. 7, 1977, at Pendleton. He was a farrier and a pen rider for Hoxie Feed Yard. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He lived most … Read more

Biography of Dr. Eilsha Edwards

DR. ELISHA B. EDWARDS, Postmaster at Elkton, Ky., was born in Elkton, Todd County, February 2, 1824. He descends from one of the first families of the county, in point of settlement, and from one of the first in the State in point of honorable and intelligent men. His parents were Elisha B. Edwards, Sr., and Martha F. Upshaw; the former a son of Hon. Benjamin Edwards. Elisha B. Edwards, Sr., was a brother of the Hon. Ninian Edwards, so noted in the early history of Kentucky and Illinois, and was born in Maryland, May 11, 1781. He came from … Read more

Biography of Nelson Wade

NELSON WADE, a leading citizen and merchant of Fairview, was born in northeastern Todd County, Ky., March 23, 1825, and is the third of ten children-seven boys and three girls-nine living, born to Brunt and Easter (Carr) Wade, natives of Virginia and Todd County, Ky., respectively. The father was of Welsh-English and the mother of Irish descent. Subject’s grandfather Wade was a native of Virginia; his grandfather Carr, of Ireland. Subject’s father was born in 1793, and served one year in the war of 1812. When he became of age he emigrated ‘to Todd County, Ky., where he rented land … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Charles E. Tandy

CHARLES E. TANDY, one of Todd County’s young and enter-prising farmers and stock-breeders, was born November 12, 1860, in Todd County, Ky. He is a son of Dr. N. M. and Margaret J. (Jesup) Tandy. The latter was a daughter of Col. Samuel B. Jesup, born November, 1792, died August, 1866, and Catherine Jesup, born March 1795, died July, 1870. Subject’s father was born 1810, died July, 1881; his mother born 1819, died August, 1877. Parents were natives of Christian and Todd Counties respectively. Our subject received more than an ordinary education, having attended Fairview and Olmstead Academies two years … Read more

Biographical Sketch of John Davis Tandy

JOHN DAVIS TANDY. The subject of this sketch was born January 23, 1837, in Todd County, Ky., where he still retains his residence. His father, Nathaniel Mills Tandy, was born in 1810, in Christian County; he removed to Todd County, Ky., in 1834, where he died in 1881. He was the son of Mills Tandy, who was born in Virginia in 1780; moved to Barren County in 1808, where he remained six months; moved to Christian County in 1809, and died in Christian County, Ky., in 1861. His father was Henry Tandy, of Virginia. Subject’s mother, Mary E., daughter of … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Paul H. Salmon

PAUL H. SALMON was born September 25, 1814, in South Carolina. His parents are George and Elizabeth (West) Salmon, the father a native of Virginia, the mother of Maryland. The father was a teacher, merchant and farmer. He died in Marshall County, Miss., in 1865, aged eighty-seven. The mother died in South Carolina in 1829. Paul H. came to this county in 1844. Six years previous he had been engaged in the cotton mills. He sold goods in Elkton six years, and in 1850 he came to the farm on which he now resides. After the death of his father-in-law, … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Thomas Hart

Thomas (2), son of Hawkins and Sarah (Roys or Royce) Hart, was born in 1714, and died in 1801. For a time he lived in Farmington, removing to Bristol about 1747. He married, 1942, Hannah Coe. Children: Mary, married Luke Gridley; Ruth, married Daniel Hills; Jonathan, see elsewhere; Hannah, married Jacob Byington; Thomas, married Mary Hungerford; Esther, married Zebulon Peck; Amasa, married Phoebe Roberts; Abel, served in the revolutionary war, and died in prison of starvation; Barbara, married Zerubbabel Jerome; Benjamin; Lydia.

Biographical Sketch of Hawkins Hart

Hawkins, son of Captain Thomas and Ruth (Hawkins) Hart, was born in Farmington, 1677, and died at Wallingford. May 2a, 1735. He removed to Wallingford, which he represented in the general court nine sessions. 1714-1732. and held the military rank of a lieutenant. He married (first) Sarah Roys or Royce, born and died in Wallingford; (second) Widow Mary Street, daughter of Rev. Joseph Eliot, of Guilford, and granddaughter of Rev. John Eliot, the author of the celebrated Indian translation of the Bible. Children, all by the first wife, with the exception of the youngest, who was a posthumous child : … Read more

Biography of Stephen Hart

Stephen Hart, who came to this country from Braintree, Essex county, England, with the company that settled at Braintree, Massachusetts, was the progenitor of the Hart families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was one of the fifty-four settlers at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1632, and married there. In 1634 he was admitted a freeman, there, and was a member and deacon of the church of which the Rev. Thomas Hooker was pastor. He went to Hartford in 1635 with a company led by Mr. Hooker, and was one of the original proprietors of that place. His house lot was on the west … Read more

Biographical Sketch of John C. Denton

John C., son of John and Minerva (Spier) Gifford, was born at the homestead in Phelps, July 23, 1837. After the completion of his studies, which were pursued in the public schools of Phelps and at the Fort Plain (New York) Seminary, he turned his attention to the cultivation of the soil at the homestead, and eventually purchased the property on which he is still residing. Energetic, industrious and optimistic, he has always obtained large and superior crops, and has disposed of his surplus produce to good advantage. Naturally of a religious temperament, which was fostered by his parents, he … Read more

Biography of John Denton

John (2), son of Rowland and Judith (Sutherland) Gifford, was born at Chatham, New York, July 23, 1794, and died at Phelps, New York, November 20, 1883. He removed to Phelps. Ontario county, New York, in 1836, and there purchased the farm which is now (1910) occupied by his son. Joining with the other settlers in forwarding the march of improvement, he rendered his share of service in developing the agricultural resources of that section of the country. For a number of years he served as an assessor. He was a leading member and a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Rowland Denton

Rowland, son of John and Bathsheba dapham) Gifford, was born May 6, 1748, and died February 3. 1827. He served as ensign in Captain Sutherland’s company during the revolution. He was a Quaker, and removed from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Dutchess county, then to Columbia county, New York, 1789, where he purchased two hundred acres of land. He married, November 1, 1770. Judith Sutherland, born August 21, 1752, died May 28, 1817. Children: Sarah, born September 21, 1771, died January 5, 1790, married Benjamin Delamater, of Chatham, New York; Jesse, married Cady; Bathsheba, born February 15, 1775, died October 23, 1794; … Read more

Biographical Sketch of John Denton

John, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Tompkins) Gifford, was born January 17, 1718. He married, November 7, 1741, Bathsheba Lapham: Children: Lydia, born March 14, 1743, died April 8, 1,754; Phebe, born June 20, 1745; Meribah, twin of Rowland ; Rowland, see elsewhere; Jesse, born September 22, 1750, died April 4, 1764; Benjamin and John, born September 29, 1755; John and Bathsheba, born March 20, 1758.

Biographical Sketch of Robert Denton

Robert, son of William Gifford, was born in 1660, removed to Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where he erected a homestead on the estate deeded to him by his father, and died in 1730. He married (first) Sarah, born February 2, 1658, died 1724, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Briggs) Wing; (second) Elizabeth . Children: Benjamin, see forward; Jeremiah, married Mary Wright; Stephen, married Mary ; Timothy, married Hannah, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Tompkins; Simeon. married Susannah.

Biographical Sketch of William Gifford

William Gifford who. according to Huntington’s “History of Stamford, Connecticut,” was sentenced by the court of that settlement to be whipped and banished in 1647 or prior to that time. He is in all probability the same of the name living in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and a member of the grand inquest at Plymouth in 1650. He was one of the first proprietors and settlers of Monmouth, New Jersey, residing there from 1665 to 1670, but with the exception of these years lived in Sandwich until his death. As a firm adherent to the Society of Friends he suffered severely from … Read more