MS 693, Fiats And Warrants

MS 693, Reel 22, Volume 18a

(Fiats and Warrants)

Understanding the Archival Reference Code in the Ontario Land Record Index (MS 693, etc.).

Misfiled Probate Record

File #3874 was misfiled and found in the 3939-3977 group (Michigan Probate Records, Bay Estate files 1858-1900 no 3939-3977).

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#3874

Karl E. Kuntz

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Help For Historical Research In Massachusetts

Source

The Massachusetts Secretary of State's website includes a section of Historical Research. The listed categories are:

Historical Research

Researching your Family History

Searchable Collections

Research Services

National Register of Historic Places

State House History and Tours

Census Information

Aberdeenshire's Parochial Registers

Aberdeenshire excerpt from Scottish Parochial Registers....

Records In York County, SC

The York County History Project; included is a "search" function.

Clark County, Ohio, Heritage Center

Jim's Photo Of A Marker Near Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio

From Clark County, Ohio, Heritage Center:

Local History Information (See Partial List of Links):

Index to the 1881 W.H. Beers & Co. History of Clark County - Available for use in the Fisher Family Library and Archives

Index to the 1890 Portrait and Biographical Album of Greene and Clark County - Available for use in the Fisher Family Library and Archives

Biographical General Reference Surname Files - Search for your family name within a general index of hundreds of biographical files arranged A-Z.

Links (Partial list below):
Genealogical/Research Resources
Clark County Genealogical Society
Clark County Public Library Newspaper Index - mid1970s-2008
Clark County Probate Court

Whose Rarely Used Records?

From a 1915 issue of Genealogy, A Journal Of American Ancestry:

Source

After I had driven fourteen miles over the mountain trails, last summer, to a Virginia County seat, I met the white-haired county clerk.  "Good Lord, man," he said, "I've been yere in this office forty-two years, and yer the second pursohn that's been yere in all that time to look at them records."

John McDermot of DeLancey's Brigade

Title: British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY.  The index card below was on Microform: c-11837:

McDermot, John

Private, 1st Battalion De Lancey's Brigade.  (Died, October 29th, 1779)

28-11-1779

c. 1876, P. 59

Search For Some Early Connecticut Divorces

A search function at Connecticut's Law and Legislation: Lotteries and divorces second series 1718-1820 : two volumes and index... page .  Other subjects can be searched as well.


Found when researching the John Backus divorce.  Searching for "Backus" turned up another divorce reference, this time for Stephen and Eunice Backus.

Backus, Eunice, petition showing that she was married to Stephen Backus of Canterbury in 1798 & that he has treated her in a cruel & abusive  manner & praying for a divorce. Resolve granting a divorce to  petitioner from aforesaid Stephen & requiring the latter to pay her  $ 167.67. Expense account. Resolve passed & execution granted,  Sept. Oct. 1805 1: 11,12 

At John Hunt's House

John Hunt, a founder of Huntsville, Alabama, was Samuel Acklin's father-in-law.  Samuel Acklin gave a deposition at John Hunt's house in Claiborne County, Tennessee, that was included in the Chancery Court Case of Christopher Acklin vs. Exr. of Thomas Walker (see below).

Chancery records online at Virginia Memory at the Library of Virginia

Augusta County, Virginia

Index No.: 1811-190 

Original Case #6

Christopher Acklin Vs. Exr. Of Thomas Walker

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Sworn to and subscribed before us* at the house of John Hunt in the county of Claiborn(e) & State of Tennessee the sixth day of September A.D. 1803 [Page 25]  *Isaac Lane, William Rogers and Joseph Nation

In Deeds post with Samuel Acklin as a witness to John Hunt's deed

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery in Greeneville, Tennessee.

There is a nationwide grave locator provided by the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs here.

Wayne County, Michigan, Death Records Index Online

A database index from the Detroit Public Library's site (1934 - 1953), using Cameron as an example:

Surname First Name Middle Name/ Initial Age Death Date Location Box File

Cameron Donald A 141 12/25/1952 EL 138 8

Cameron Forest Chester 153 7/5/1953 EL 147 7

Cameron Helen 173 1/22/1952 EC 129 16

Cameron Hellen 190 5/2/1950 LP 111 6

Cameron James 176 12/12/1952 DB 129 13

Cameron Mary 177 11/1/1951 RR 121 17

Cameron Nina 177 5/16/1953 HP 144 17

"A" Texas Land Grants

Some Texas land grant recipients whose surname begins with the letter A and the Texas General Land Office page here.

An explanation of Texas land and property here.

Franklin Co., TN, Wiki And Notes

Franklin County, Tennessee, Wiki here.

In a related topic, here's some notes taken while visiting the library in Franklin County and perusing their vertical files.

Winchester Cemetery (Old)
Acklen, Joseph b. 10-11-1835; d. 9-11-1902
Lucy, wife of Joseph Acklen 10-5-1844; d. 2-18-1908
Acklen, William Templeton b. 9-27-1881; d. 8-7-1902

Note Washington, Mont & Kentucky counties formed Dec 6, 1776 from Fincastle Co., KY

POWER File
Letter to Mr. Herman Powers (in Greenville? SC) - Winchester, TN 5 Feb 1981
Max Barnes & Wife, Mildred
William Power in Madison Co., AL, 1820-18??
Will 1 Nov 1851...children were William, Jonathan, James, Nathaniel & 5 girls

Nathaniel ..Mildred Barnes' ancestry
Greenville Co., SC 22 Nov 1816 d. Madison Co., AL 1 March 1879
Wife Elizabeth Acklin b. AL m. 22 Nov 1844 in Franklin Co., TN; d. 19 May 1905
Barnes' daughter in Greenville - Mrs. James H. Poole (Joyce)

Graves of Jos Acklen & wife Sarah, parents of Elizabeth
in same cemetery as Nathaniel T. & Elizabeth Acklin Power
"Steele Cemetery"

1st Acklin File
Oct 12, 1926 to Col. Jas/Jos Hayes Acklin
Nashville
Receipt of a card from your daughter, Mrs. Robert E. Landis (Pauline Acklin Landis) of Detroit....
from Frederick Adams Virkus, editor

Letterhead of Julia M. Barker

GROENDYKE Family File
Family pedigree of Mary Helen Davis Groendyke
William Henry Byrom to Elizabeth Lasiter

Greene H. Byrum 1832 - 5 Oct 1897, Saline Co.

m.

M. Adaline Rice

10 Oct 1825 - 25 Feb 1891 Saline Co., IL

Thomas Franklin Byrom

b. 30 Aug 1856 Estill Springs

m. 16 Oct 1878

d. 1942 Jonesboro, Arkansas

m. Sarah E. Thomas

b. Saline Co.

d. 9 May 1928

Greenway, AR

Finding Aid For The Acklen Family Papers

The Acklen family papers, 1804-1889, finding aid is online courtesy of Tulane University.  The papers are focused primarily on transactions in the West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, area.

Jim's Photo Of A Map Hanging In The Angola Prison Museum

I went through this collection, document by document, in the Spring of 2005, before Hurricane Katrina hit.  As I was only allowed to make a copy of one item, I was relieved to discover that the collection was still intact and not a victim of  the hurricane.

I was not familiar with most of the names in the file; my goal was to find any corroborating evidence about Elizabeth (Acklin) Hinds, my presumed ancestor, who was the aunt of Joseph A.S. Acklen, Adelicia, for whom the Acklen family papers were named.  No Hinds information was found, but it was a fascinating file nonetheless.

Here are some notes of my notes; Tulane's finding aid is vastly superior to mine!
Lucy Perrie will at residence Ira Smith presence of Jos E. Johnson, John Stirling, Ebenezer Cooley; daughter Nancy Ann
Bennett Barrow to Wm B. Lane
Wm B. Lane to Wm R. Barrow  March 1826
Wm R. Barrow To ISAAC FRANKLIN
Wm Barker to George Rowe
Mrs. Mary Ann Smith, wife of Ira Smith
Solomon Alition???
Heirs of John Alicton???
James Perrie
Edward Randolph & Judith &? Iredith Barclay

One of the Barrows, of the family mentioned above, in the West Feliciana, Louisiana, area, and the Acklins from my Relatively Fiction blog:

-- H. L. Hunley's brother-in-law, Robert Ruffin Barrow, was Adelica & Joseph Acklin's neighbor in the West Feliciana, Louisiana, plantations. Hunley, who was born in Sumner Co., TN, invented the Confederate submarine named for him.

Since my first visit, I've learned more about the residents of West Feliciana Parish.

The Widowed Mary Anne McDonald

Found in the Library and Archives Canada, the British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series), was a file for Mary Anne McDonald, widow of the late Alexander, Sergeant, 41st Foot.

Source (related source)

Volume 506 [left bottom of index card] can be found on C-3043

Page 124, Page 125, Page 126, Page 126a

McDonald, the late Alexander, Sergt., 41st Foot

Mary Anne McDonald to Sir J. C. Sherbrooke

Montreal, 10 July 1816

Jackson County Recorder Of Deeds Search

The Jackson County [Missouri] Recorder of Deeds (Kansas City area) has a Public Access website that can be searched.  An example of what can be found (it is a will, though most of the results were deed-related):

1975I0231231 643 - 1635 10 12/29/1975  WILL CAMERON BESSIE J DECD NONE 

There was a separate search for marriages.  Harry S. Truman and future First Lady Bess were included:

1919K0084752	TRUMAN, HARRY S	WALLACE, BESS	06/27/1919	06/28/1919

An Obituary Search At Windsor, Ontario

An obituary search from the Windsor Public Library site:

Online Site From The University Of Florida

Link to the George A. Smathers Libraries.

Also linked to the University of Florida Library's site is the Bradford Telegraph newspaper.

Canadian Census Database Updates

The Library and Archives Canada Blog posted that the Archives has a "Release of a new version of the Census of Canada, 1871 database," on May 9, 2013.

"Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Census of Canada, 1871 database."

On April 30th, the Archives updated their 1881 census database.