Humidification

Back in December  I did a humidification project with some rolled documents.  

Start with an empty box that has a lid - this is a Rubbermaid box - notice the rolled documents on the floor to the right. 

Ahnentafel #853 - Mary Duncan

Mary Duncan

Born: ca. 1700 probably in Virginia
Died: between 1740 and 1751

Buried: unknown

Married:  William Morgan by 1740

Children:
Charles

Notebooks - Ohio No. 5

Bell, Carol. Ohio Lands: Steubenville Land Office, 1800 - 1820, Youngstown, OH: Bell, nd.

Terms of Sale Under Various U.S. Land Acts - Year, Price, Terms & Minimum Purchase

• 1785 - $1/acre - specie, loan-office or debt certificates - 640 acres
• 1795 - $2/acre - one-half down, one-half due in one year - 640 acres
• 1800 - $2/acre - one quarter cash, remainder in three annual installments - 320 acres
• 1804 - $2/acre - one-quarter cash, remainder in three annual installments - 160 acres
• 1820 - $1.25/acre - cash, no credit - 80 acres
• 1830 - land scrip - acceptable in lieu of cash - 80 acres
• 1832 - $1.25/acre - cash - 40 acres

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Dyer, Albion. First Ownership of Ohio Lands, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969.

At the end of the war of the American Revolution the Continental Congress came into possession of certain western lands, surrendered by the British Crown to the United States in the treaty signed at Paris on the 3d day of September, 1783. The "crown lands," as they were called, lay back of the heads

Ahnentafel #852 - William Morgan

William Morgan

Born: ca. 1700 Fauquier Co., Virginia
Died: 1797 between August 6 and September 9, Pulaski Co., Kentucky

Buried: unknown

Married: 1) Mary Duncan
2) Elizabeth (--?--), d. after 1800, she may have been a Withers

Records:

1736 - April 30 - Culpeper Co., Virginia deed:

Surv'd. for William Morgan of St. Mark's Parish, Orange Co. 178 acres in Great Fork of Rappahannock of branches of Mt. Run; adj. Col. Wm. Beverley, Benja. Roberts, Francis Kirtlet, John Kilgore, Wm. Payton, Dan'l. Huff.  Surv. J. Wood. Is this our William Morgan?

1747 - Aug. 6 - Culpeper Co., Virginia - deed:

George Roberts of Orange, assignee (in 1747) of William Morgan; 6 Aug. 1747 -

Notebooks - North Carolina #5

Haun, Weynette. Johnston County North Carolina Court Minutes, 1759-1766, Book I, Durham, NC: Haun, nd

page 34 - [at the court house of said county on the third Tuesday, July 1760] - The last will & testament of John Gurley dec'd. was admitted to be proved by the oath of Joseph Gurley evidence. At ye same time Nathan Arthur Gurley & Nathan Gurley sones to the testator appeared & qualified as executors. Ordered that ye same be recorded.

On the motion of Mr. Ballard on behalf of the widow of Wm. Gurley dec'd. praying letters of administration of the estate of her said late husband. The same is granted & she accordingly took the oath of an administratrix & tenders Jon. Ballard & Joseph Gurley as her securities who are accepted of, & it is further ordered that the said administratrix be at liberty to sell such part of the said intestates estate as is perishable & as she may judge convenient.

page 40 - at an inferior court of pleas & quarter sessions begun & held for said county on the third Tuesday in Oct. 1760 . . . Mary Gurley administratrix of ye estate of William Gurley dec'd. delivered into court and

Ahnentafel #849 - Mary (--?--)

Mary (--?--)

Born: unknown
Died: by 1768, see deed below

Buried: unknown

Married: John Morehead in Virginia

There is speculation that she was an Armistead or a Norman.  It is also possible that she was a Presley.  

There was a William Presly living in Northumberland County, Virginia between 1652 and 1655. He was a member of the county court and appeared in many lawsuits, served on juries and was the church warden for Chinekahan quarter, aka Chickacoan. 

She may have been a Saunders:

Gen. 1. Ebenezer Saunders md. Elizabeth Presley / Philips

Gen. 2. Elizabeth Saunders d. 1719 md. 1716 Charles Nelms Jr. b. 1694, d. before 1733 

Notebooks - Mom's Families No. 4, Part 4

Cagle, John. The Cagle Family in the South, to 1850, Vol. 1, North Carolina, Little Rock, AR: Cagle, 1983.

The Gurley/Cagle Connection - A second-hand report (dating back to an unidentified Cagle researcher in 1931) has provided the following item, which seems to relate to the Cagles of Montgomery County:

John Gurley married Mary Cagle in North Carolina. His orphan children came to Morgan Co., Alabama about 1825, with their uncle John Cagle. They were Jessie, 1823-1906, married Elizabeth Lowery of Bulox Creek, York Co., SC; Polly married John Brisco; John, d. Hartselle, Alabama, Tillman, the oldest son, stayed in North Carolina.

Regarding the location of John Cagle and his nephews, the Gurley orphans, the writer has been unable to locate any records on them in early Morgan Co., Alabama, nor do they seem to appear in the 1830 Alabama census. However, looking into later Alabama records, it is noteworthy that the Gurleys seem to be living in Marshall Co. (adjoining Morgan Co.) at the time of the 1850 census; the family seems to consist of three teenagers, each of whom was living in a separate household, as though they were orphans;

Ahnentafel #848 - John Morehead

John Morehead

Born: between 1685 and 1690 Northumberland Co., VA
Died: between June 22 & August 8, 1768 in Fauquier Co., VA

Buried: unknown

Married: Mary (--?--) in Virginia

Occupation: Planter

Biography:

John Morehead, who bought the land of Henry Cafly on June 8, 1726, in that part of King George County which four years later, 1730 became Prince William County, covering the great square between the Blue Ridge and the Potomac opposite the present site of Washington, has long been the earliest positively recorded known member of his family.  He was born some time before 1700, probably as early as 1681 or 1682, and his wife's name was Mary. On September 10, 1742, they were living in Hamilton parish of Prince William County, where he was an extensive planter. This was the year that Fairfax County