Franklin v. Armfield

Source

The court case involved the estate of the late Isaac Franklin.

John F. S. Smith

Source (of bio information)

"...I am the third son of respectable parents and was on the 21st of November AD 1821, in the city of Savannah, Georgia, introduced to this troublous world..."

California Great Registers

Name John Francisco Stone Smith

Event Type Voter Registration

Event Date 15 Jun 1866

Event Place 3d Township, Contra Costa, California, United States

Age 45

Birth Year (Estimated) 1821

Birthplace Georgia

Census 1880

Township 3, Contra Costa, California, United States

John F S Smith Self M 59 Georgia, United States

Adeline Smith Other F 50 Tennessee, United States

William Q Smith Other M 29 California, United States

James B Smith Other M 26 California, United States

Elliott H Smith Other M 24 California, United States

Thomas D Smith Other M 22 California, United States

Mary E Smith Other F 20 California, United States

Carrie M Smith Other F 16 California, United States

Adeline Smith Other F 15 California, United States

Virginia Smith Other F 14 California, United States

Amanda Smith Other F 13 California, United States

Nellie Smith Other F 9 California, United States

"My father was Captain James Smith of the United States navy, a native of Richmond, Virginia, of the old cavalier stock of Smiths and Mumfords of that old dominion. My mother was Mary Boylston, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, and of the old Puritan stock of Morgans. James Boylston, my grandfather, was a Captain in the English army and married my grandmother when the old revolutionary war was only a little unpleasantness to be settled in a few days...".

"My grandfather finally parted from his bride, fondly hoping that the unhappy war would soon cease and he would be permitted to return and claim her with the consent of all. But his young bride soon became a widow, and soon after a mother of an orphan girl. Her husband became a martyr to duty, and, after giving birth to her child, she followed him to where no ruthless wars could separate them, leaving her little girl in the care of her brother, the late General David B. Morgan, of Louisiana history, he to become her guardian and protector, the old lady having never forgiven her daughter for her secret marriage with the hated Englishman. The dying mother insisted upon depriving her of any care for or interest in her child and insisted on the brother's promise to guard and protect her little babe."

On relating the incident to the family at the close of the war, he begged to be allowed to adopt little Mary, as he was childless, in gratitude to the dead father. The family declined the honorable request. As time rolled on and peace and social intercourse had been established, my mother, then a girl of fifteen, with her uncle, visited the family of the Lord Chief Justice of Canada. While there she was struck with the resemblance of one of the portraits to that of her father in her locket ,and while comparing the two, the old Admiral Holloway [Hallowell?] of the British Navy came hobbling by and inquired why she compared them, and asked her who the locket represented. She replied, "My father." "Who was your father?" "James Boylston, sir." "Why that is James Boylston on the wall, my nephew, and looking at the locket and then at her said excitedly, "That is he and you are surely his daughter." "Explain to me child; I did not know of his marriage in America." She referred him to her Uncle David, who soon explained the matter of the private marriage with his sister and the unhappy circumstances following.

Canadian will with New Orleans

Canadian will with New Orleans (Image 212)

Kent County, Ontario, Canada

9 May 1866

#248

Notarized in New Orleans, Louisiana

Mary Francis Baptiste

To

Joseph Baptiste

Mistress Mary Francis residing in this City and formerly

residing in Chatham, Kent County, Canada West...

by her husband Joseph Baptiste...

Broussard Testimony In Vermilion Parish

Records of the field offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1872:

Source

State of Louisiana, Vermilion Parish

28 February 1868

Sarazin Broussard v. Henry, freedman

Lucien S. Broussard (Testimony)...freedgirl Caroline, was left in charge of Sarazin Broussard...her mother left the Parish in 1863...child is now about 9 years old...Henry and Hetty (the mother of the freed girl) have never been legally married...

Myra Clark Gaines In Delaware

"An incident which may be deemed at once legendary and historic in character is connected with a once stately mansion which is still standing in Lewes. The edifice has always been associated with the well known Fisher family and is called the Fisher House. It was once the residence of Colonel Samuel B. Davis, commander of the defending forces at the bombardment of Lewes in 1813."

"With the colonel, during his residence in this house, there lived a young lady as his ward for whom he cherished great affection as one of his own children, while she had never suspected that she was not his daughter until she was playfully bantered by some friends upon a certain occasion in a way implying serious doubt of her real relationship with one she thought her father. Startled with suspicion and awed with harassing doubts, she impatiently awaited a reliable test of the truth and when the colonel left the house to attend church on the ensuing Sunday she quickly searched through his well stored papers among which found unquestionable evidence that she was not the daughter, but the ward of her supposed father and the heiress of large estates in New Orleans." [Myra Clark Gaines]

Also see this post in Relatively Fiction

Independent State Of West Florida

"The beginning of the 'Free and Independent State of West Florida' dates with the assembling of the convention, September 23, 1810; and its career terminates with the raising of the flag of the United States at St. Francisville, December 6, of the same year. Yet brief as was this career, it was nevertheless active." (Source - Magazine Of American History)

Independent State of West Florida Key (Source)

Description Of The Maria Florilla Flint Hamblen Papers

From the Guide to Civil War Manuscript Collections at the Arkansas State Archives:

"Maria Florilla Flint Hamblen papers, 1821-1908... Maria Florilla Flint Hamblen was born in 1838 in Michigan. In 1850, the family moved to New York, and beginning in 1855, Maria attended Genesee College studying music and foreign languages."

My Picture Of Fort Jackson, Louisiana, Historical Marker

"After teaching for a time, she visited her brother in New Orleans in December of 1865. He had been assigned to Forts Jackson and St. Phillips, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hamblen. Maria married Hamblen in 1866. The couple moved to New York, then to Iowa, and then to Florida, where Samuel worked as a government surveyor. Then, in the late 1870s, they moved to Hot Springs. Maria taught music and was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and Woman’s Christian Library Association. This collection includes an autobiography, letterbook, and scrapbook."


FindAGrave Memorial for Mrs. Hamblen.

Census 1865

Lima, Livingston, New York, United States

Asa A Flint Father M 55

Louisa C Flint Wife F 53

*Maria F Flint Daughter F 35

Wilbur F Flint Son M 23

Ella L Flint Daughter F 13

Gidion F Draper Boarder M 37

Charlotte P Draper Boarder F 32

Gidion F Draper Boarder M 6

*Usual Place of Employment: Ohio

Census 1850

Batavia, Genesee, New York, United States

Asa A Flint M 39 New York

Emory Flint M 13 Michigan

Wilbur Flint M 10 Michigan

Louisa C Flint F 38 New York

Flora M Flint F 12 Michigan

John Crawford M 25 Ireland

William Goodrich M 33 New York

Service At Fort Smith

"His [Clement Alexander Finley's] service during the forty-three years that elapsed before he was appointed surgeon general was naturally varied and comprehensive. From the time of his appointment to August 1822 he served with his regiment in Louisiana. Then he had a two years tour of duty to May 1824 at Fort Smith in the malarious wilds of Arkansas." [Source]

John Richards' Ancestors And Descendants

A Genealogical Register..., Volume 3,  included John Richards:

Paul/Paulus Richards m. ? [Gelatie Jans]

Stephen Richards m. Maria Van Brugh

John Richards m. 1st ? and [m. 2nd Elizabeth Van Rensselaer]

John Richards m. Lydia Thomas

Martha Richards m. Ichabod Smith

Simeon Smith m. Louisa Kimberly

Emma Ursula Smith m. Robert N. McMillan

Emma Fanny McMillan m. William Tandy Bush

Katie Emma Bush m. F. R. Stainton

F. R. Stainton m. Living

West Florida And Colonel Reuben Kemper

When the Spanish authorities of Baton Rouge were deposed, it was anticipated that Governor Folch of the Mobile district would attempt to interfere with the organization of the little republic. So the convention posted a line of sentinels along the banks of the Pearl river, the western boundary of the part of West Florida in revolt.

Replica Of Flag Of Republic Of West Florida (Mississippi)

The maintenance of this line was found to be an uncertain and expensive means of safety against attack. It was determined to settle the matter at once by a resort to arms. War was declared against Mobile. An expedition under the command of Colonel Reuben Kemper made its way to the shores of Mobile bay, but being poorly equipped was compelled to defer its attack until a supply of arms and munitions could be procured.

Mural In Baton Rouge, Louisiana

An agent of Kemper managed to purchase of Henri de la Franci, a citizen of Baton Rouge, a lot of arms; and the convention bought a flat-boat load of western produce, transferred it to a keel-boat and sent it to the relief of Kemper.  [Source]

1728 NOLA Map

The New Orleans Book:

1728 Map Of New Orleans, Louisiana

"In 1726 Bienville sold to a company of Jesuits a plantation which, by later extensions, up to 1745, occupied about the area of the present First District. Here, in 1727, the Jesuits established a church and mission center. Their plantation became the first agricultural school of Louisiana, for here they introduced cultivation of the orange, fig, sugar cane (1751), indigo plant, and myrtle...".

Replica Of The City At The New Orleans Gardens

Enroute To Ste. Genevieve

In descending the Mississippi River with products of his farm and mills, he was captured by pirates, who subsequently released him, with his crew and cargo, for a small ransom paid in pork and flour. New Orleans then belonged to Spain, and pirates and robbers infested the land, but they did not prevent Israel Dodge from his extended journeys. 

DAR Marker - El Camino Real
New Madrid, Cape Girardeau, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis
Missouri

It was on one of those saddle-rides, from Bairdstown to Ste. Genevieve, by land that his oldest son Henry was born at the French Post Vincennes on the Wabash; 

Historic Vincennes (Indiana)

his parents being detained at that post, in consequence of high waters on the river. Henry was so named for a gunsmith (Moses Henry), who saved the life of the infant boy when but a few weeks old... .[Source]

A Flagship In Unfriendly Waters (Baton Rouge)

Photographic History Of The Civil War:

Modern-day Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Traditional Lincoln-Bush Romance...

...although Thomas Lincoln first married Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's mother, and in the cabin below:

There is a tradition that Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush were sweethearts until Sarah chose Daniel Johnston in preference to her father's and brothers' close friend. Thomas Lincoln was well acquainted with Sally Bush we may assume by the many associations of Thomas with her father as well as her brothers.

When Thomas was serving in the same patrol with Christopher Bush in 1805, Sally was then but sixteen years old while Thomas was twenty-nine, thirteen years her senior.

Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush's brother, Isaac, had been contemplating a trip to New Orleans, and probably started in their flatboat March fourth. One week later, on March eleventh, Sarah married Daniel Johnston. Upon the return of Thomas and Isaac two months later, both of them bought gifts for Mrs. Johnston. About one month from the time Thomas Lincoln arrived from New Orleans he married Nancy Hanks. It would appear from these facts that Thomas Lincoln, who had known Nancy Hanks for many years, was rather quick to carry on a courtship, propose marriage, and have the ceremony performed all within a month.

To Spanish Fort

" After remaining in my pleasant quarters on the gun-boat long enough to recruit my shattered forces, I bade my kind friends farewell and went to Memphis, where I reported to the general in command. He granted me a thirty days' furlough, as I was still far from being strong or well.

Near Spanish Fort

I went home and remained a few days, but the desire to rejoin my comrades was so strong that I could not resist, and in less than two weeks I reported to my regiment at Bowling Green, Ky. We were soon ordered to New Orleans, and from there to Spanish Fort, and took part in one of the last battles of the war." [Source]

New Orleans

Source

General Thomas In Baton Rouge

Swamp In Baton Rouge

Proceedings of the Historical Society of East and West Baton Rouge:

"In 1805 Philemon Thomas moved from Kentucky to West Florida. Five years after he commanded the West Florida revolutionary troops who captured Baton Rouge from the Spanish under Grandpre."

Lewis, Alias Pomfrey, Of St. Mary's Parish

Records Of The Field Offices....

Source

Thibodeau And Broussard

Louisiana records in French in Canadian Archives (Film C-2237):

St. Martinville

...d'Olivier Thibodeau de Magdelene Broussard, ses pere and mere...

Vying For Independence In Baton Rouge

From the Magazine Of American History:

Mural In Baton Rouge

"...[In 1810] the organized forces of the convention had been placed under the command of General Philemon Thomas, a wealthy planter living near Baton Rouge, and he was instructed to reduce the Spanish fort near by. This he succeeded in doing."

"Delassus, the governor of the province, was away at the time, and the Baton Rouge fort was in command of young Louis de Grandpre, grandson of Carlo de Grandpre, a former governor. In the defense of the fort Grandpre found himself deserted by his men. Nevertheless, he offered stubborn resistance, and in the noble discharge of his duty was slain."

Baton Rouge Aerial View Of Park

"The causes which led to the revolt may be best suggested, perhaps, by the words of the "Declaration": "....Without any hope of protection from the mother country, betrayed by a magistrate whose duty it was to have provided for the safety and tranquility of the people and government committed to his charge; and exposed to all the evils of a state of anarchy which we have so long endeavored to avert, it becomes our duty to provide for our own security as a free independent state, absolved from all allegiance to a government which no longer protects us."