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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Notebooks - Indiana #6, Part 2


1812 Tax List of Horses in Harrison County, Indiana, The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol. 26, No. 4, Dec. 1986, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society

From the original record in the Harrison County Court House, Corydon, Indiana . . . At this early date, Harrison included parts of what now are Crawford, Floyd, Orange and Washington Counties.
  • Colclazer, Jacob - 4
  • Crutchfield, George - 3
  • Dewalt, Henry - 2
  • Edwards, Cassus - 3
  • Edwards, Thomas - 2
  • Edwards, Thomas - 2
  • Edwards Mary - 1
  • Edwards, Isaac - 2
  • Stout, Daniel - 1
  • Tipton, John - 2
  • Wilson, Joshua - 1
  • Wilson, Samuel - 1
  • Wilson, Jassee - 1
  • Wright, Elijah - 1
  • Wright, William - 3
  • Wright, Amos - 5
  • Wright, James - 2
  • Wright, Philburd - 4
  • Wright, Jessee - 1
  • Wright, Levy - 1
  • Wright, Ruben - 2
  • Wright, George - 1
  • Wright, John - 3
  • Wright, Noah - 1
  • Woolf, George - 3
  • Wright, John - 6, 1 stud
  • Woolf, John - 1
  • Wright, William - 2
  • Wright, Andrew - 1
  • Wilson, Thomas - 1
  • Wright, Eli - 4
  • Wright, Greenberry - 2
  • Wilson, Robert - no property
  • Young, James - 4
  • Young, Joseph - no property
  • Young, William - 2
  • Young, Jacob - 2
  • Young, William - 2
  • Young, Jacob - 4
  • Young, Jacob - no property
  • Young, Thomas - 1
  • Young, George - 1
  • Young, David - 1
Abell, Maxine. Lawrence County Marriages, 1818-1834, The Hoosier Genealogist, nd

Lawrence County Marriages, 1818-1824 may be found in Indiana Source Book I. Checking against that, we find that Mrs. Abell added a few which were not in the earlier work. To prevent duplication, we have deleted those earlier records which appear in SBI.
  • Elihu Allen & Betsy Litton, 12 Aug. 1827
  • Theodrick Allen & Mary Litton 4 Nov. 1834
  • Jesse Beasley & Jane Tyrey 28 May 1824
  • Alexander Beezley & Frances Fender, 28 March 1828
  • Isaiah Beezley & Sally Mullis, 18 Aug. 1825
  • Jesse Beezley & Nancy Sappington 18 Sep. 1827
  • Richard Beezley & Molly Edwards 2 March 1828
  • Richard Beezley & Sally Connelly 8 May 1828
  • Samuel M. Biggs & Rachel Beezley 27 May 1823
  • Philip Breeding & Elizabeth Phipps 26 Nov. 1829
  • Martin Donica & Tabitha Litten 29 July 1830
  • Alexander East & Catharine Beasley 16 Dec. 1833
  • Edward Edwards & Sarah Cooper 24 July 1827
  • Edward M. Edwards & Phoebe Hall 15 Nov. 1833
  • Isaac Edwards & Hannah Edwards 9 Nov. 1827
  • Jesse Edwards & Rebecca Smith 4 March 1834
  • John Edwards & Mary Williams, 14 Feb. 1828
  • John Edwards & Eliza Knight, 8 July 1834
  • William Edwards & Rebecca Isom 26 June 1831
  • William Edwards & Elizabeth Fish 18 July 1833
  • James Elmore & Sally M. Edwards 29 Aug. 1832
  • Nathan Farmer & Nancy Edwards 12 May 1832
  • John Henderson & Nancy Brooks, 8 Jan. 1829
  • William Herron & Elizabeth Galbrath 4 Dec. 1834
  • William Kent & Rebecca Beasley 22 Apr. 1832
  • Isaac Litten & Eliza Pender 26 Jan. 1829
  • David Litten & Jane Pleasant 22 Feb. 1834
  • Hosea Litten & Elizabeth Brown, 16 Feb. 1834
  • David Maiden & Rebecca Edwards 17 Jan. 1827
  • Shadrack Martin & Soohey Edwards 5 Jan. 1825
  • William Meek & Mily Brooks, 28 Oct. 1827
  • Henry Miller & Sally Edwards 13 July 1826
  • John T. Moberly & Peggy Brooks 21 Sept. 1826
  • George Parks & Sally Owens 7 Dec. 1833
  • Harrison Spear & Ann Baker 13 Dec. 1832
  • Washington Spear & Maria Fingle 9 July 1827
  • John Speer & Jemima Davis 15 Dec. 1831
  • Joseph Tyrey & Polly Beasley 28 May 1834
  • John W. Winfrey & Elizabeth Brooks, 4 June 1829
Bloomfield, Tom, et al. Posey County, Indiana, Index of Names of Persons & of Firms, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 1979.
Cox, Carroll & Gloria Cox. Posey County, Indiana: A Documented History, 1815-1900, Vol. I, Owensboro, KY: McDowell Publications, 1982
Posey County probate records are on file in the county clerk's office starting in 1815 through the present time. The style & quantity of records have changed throughout the years. The quality of the records has also been different from one clerk to another. The law changes have also affected the information that is required. At least half of the estates recorded do not list heirs. Some lists of heirs are not complete due to family quarrels, etc. Fortunately for persons hunting genealogical material these heirs can usually be found in a title clearance suit etc. Many estates that were small list nothing other than the wife. Some early estate papers but not the books have been in the state archives for quite some time. . . . 

The date listed in these two lists of estates is a date when there was court action of some kind on the estate or guardianship.  While the estate or guardianship might have been entered at an earlier period of time it might still be in court for as much as ten years later. 

There are a few instances of adoption which at an early time were not closed in Posey County. There are also a few depositions stating that various men did revolutionary war service.

In several cases list or proof of heirship have been taken from civil lawsuits, deeds or depositions. . . .
  • Dunbar, John, 9/14/1829, 3/11/1831 David Dunbar administrator with Thomas Wilson & Peter Saltzman security. Heirs: widow Letitia, Robert & David Dunbar, Margaret Duckworth, wife of John Duckworth
  • Himan, Alexander 1/21/1829 Sarah Himan administrator with William Wilson & Andrew Saltzman security in the February term of court 1829 when Peter Saltzman is chosen guardian by heirs who were John aged 17, Mathew aged 12 & Sarah aged 7.
  • Hineman, Andrew (multiple spellings - Highman, Hieman, etc.) entered Nov. 16, 1822 with Peter Saltzman administrator & John Schnee & James Campbell security. Stays in court for a long period of time. 
  • Listing of soldier's wives following list taken from individual vouchers on file in state archives
  • Fitzgerald, Lewis, 1874, James N. Johnson, administrator
  • Miller, Victor, 1873, 1874 heirs: Martha Fitzgeral, Emma E. Donaldson, Mary O. Jones, Theodore, Pephine Miller
  • Saltzman, Andrew, died early 1855
  • Saltzman, Daniel, 9/20/1833, Peter Saltzman administrator with Elias Altizer & Ignatius Taylor, wife Anna orther heirs all infants, Anders, Abner, Benjamin, Tracy, William, Emily Saltzman, estate insolvent. 
  • Saltzman, Eli, 1876, Edward Homer administrator. Heirs: widow Mary Jane, Lewis, Oscar, Edwin, Elvira, Walter Saltzman.
  • Saltzman, Eli, 1892, heir: Elvira Bacon, reference deed records
  • Saltzman, John, 1895, heirs: Louis, Mary J., Oscar T., Edwin, Lucy, Walter R., Martha Saltzman
  • Saltzman, John will made 2/18/1832 probated 9/3/1838 with witness being John Saltzman, Peter Saltzman, Abel Mathews. Gave ground to Aquilla Mathews, relationship unknown.
  • Saltzman, John, 1874 insanity with Lewis Rightmeyer guardian
  • Saltzman, Louisa M. 1875, Louis F.L. & Angeline Vandergrift administrators
  • Saltzman, Prudence
  • Saltzman, Oscar T. under guardianship 1860s with Menzies as guardian
  • Saltzman, Michael, 1862 heirs: George, Jacob, Emily Jane, Eli, Rosanna Saltzman, reference Deed Record Z, p. 257
  • Saltzman, Solomon, 9/22/1839, David Durlin administrator with Peter Saltzman & R.D. Owen security. Widow mentioned but not named, estate insolvent
  • Saltzman, Thoms, 1891 Ezra Stephens administrator. Heirs: Fredrick, Edward, Ganny G. Saltzman, Emily E. Wilsey, Laura J. Klein, Mary E. McClahan
  • Wilson, Alexander, 3/15/1819, 11/1830, John Dunbar & Sarah Wilson administrator with James P. Drake & Dann Lynn security. Mentions property in Butler Co., PA and the following names connected with it: L. Lewis Evans, Thomas Grayham, William Short, John Negby, Alex Douthart, Richard Shorts, Daniel Graham. Sale bill dated 4/9/1819 with following buying Sarah Wilson, Abner Coats, Elias Roberts, Andrew Saltzman, William Wilson, William Alexander, Benjamin Coats, Joseph Spalding, John Dunbar, Samuel White, John Hensen. Others mentioned in the estate settling are John Crunk, Celia Coats, Charles P. Gross, William Smith, Keziah Saltzman, John Schnee, Frederick Rapp, Ebenezer Phillips, David A. Stitts, Samuel Annable, John Johnston, John Denby, Parly Hughs. Heirs: widow Sarah who marries a Highman, on 5/19/1819 she is appointed guardian for Ann aged 13, Sealy aged 11, Alexander aged 6, Margaret aged 3. Alexander Highman was appointed guardian for William aged 18 & Abner Coats was appointed guardian for Mary aged 15.
  • Wilson, Christopher 1858, Isaac Wilson administrator, heirs: widow Abigail, Isaac & James C. Wilson, Lacy Farmer who lived in Union Co., KY
  • Wilson, Elizabeth, 1871, heirs: Mary J. Highman, Jane Highman, Sarah French, Elizabeth French, Catherine Truscott, Alexander William, Christopher, John Wilson
  • Wilson, John S.L. 1875, left a will with Thomas J. Nelson administrator, heirs: wife Martha Jane, Walter, Louis H., John W., Almeda B. Wilson, Laura J. Wade, Catharine McKinnis
  • Wilson, Joseph, 5/1838 John Pitcher administrator Heirs: widow Malinda who married John Welborn, John Wilson
  • Wilson, Lewis
  • Wilson, Robert F. 1865
  • Wilson, Thomas, 1841, William Nettleton administrator of insolvent estate. Called Wabash Thomas. Sale bill mentions a John, James & William Wilson. James Wilson lived in Illinois
  • Wilson, Thomas, 11/13/1837, David Durlin administrator
  • Wilson, William, died 10/23/1891 heirs: Susan, Robert, John, Jane, Caroline Wilson, Mary Edmonds, Elizabeth Cartwright.
  • Wilson, William, 1874 insane James Smith guardian
Marriage records from the first original marriage book. Some of it is very hard to read & spelling is at times somewhat different than the record now used in the clerks office which was copied around 1880.
  • Saltzman, Andrew & Kesiah Wilson, 4/13/1818 
  • Saltzman, Catherine & Thomas Wilson, 7/15/1818 
  • Saltzman, Daniel & Anna Coats 10/22/1818 
  • Saltzman, Hannah & David Durlin 3/13/1821 
  • Saltzman, John & Sbilla Mathews, 8/2/1820
  • Saltzman, Michael & Catherine Bidner, 6/21/1823 
  • Saltzman, Mary & William Means, 8/16/1820 
  • Saltzman, Peter & Polly Lynn 6/22/1820 
  • Saltzman, Sarah & James Keister, 6/19/1822 
  • Saltzman, Solomon & Polly Zeno Orman, 10/2/1830 
  • Saltzman, Susannah & Aquilla Mathis, 4/1/1817
  • Slaven, Eliza & James B. Newman, 12/7/1829 
  • Wilson, Catherine & Elikim Anderson, 3/11/1826 
  • Wilson, Christopher & Abigail Allison, 3/4/1830
  • Wilson, Cealy & Abner Coats, 12/25/1827
  • Wilson, David & Sabina Stallings 9/7/1822
  • Wilson, George & Elizabeth Stallings 3/5/1819
  • Wilson, John & Minerva Sturvinand (?), 12/26/1820
  • Wilson, Keziah & Andrew Saltzman, 4/12/1818
  • Wilson, Nancy & Thomas Neal, 3/14/1826
  • Wilson, Polly & Henry Stallings, 10/12/1822
  • Wilson, Sally & Allen Gentry, 1/22/1827
  • Wilson, Sally & Issac M. Wade 1/1/1828
  • Wilson, Sarah & Alexander Highman (Himan), 1/10/1822
  • Wilson, Sarah & John Garris, 4/8/1829
  • Wilson, Thomas & Catherine Saltzman 7/14/1818
  • Wilson, Thomas & Susana Nettleton, 5/23/1829
  • Wilson, William & Polly A. Varner, 2/22/1820
  • Wilson, William & Margaret Moore, 2/20/1826
Knox County Records - the following people are listed in the Knox County marriage records who either were then or later lived in Posey County.
  • Fitzgerald, Johnson & Margaret Eyers, 1/30/1812 
Posey County Commissioners Volume I
  • Ordered that John Saltzman, Elias Alitizer, Abner Coats view & mark a road from Parly Hughs to Springfield [Springfield was the original county seat before Mt. Vernon]
  • Saturday, 8/16/1817 Samuel R. Marrs, Abner Cotes. Ordered that Jermiah Washbourn allowed six dollars for guarding Edward C. Fitzgerrel 
  • Springfield 11/10/1817 Thomas Robb, Abner Cotes. Walter Loveless allowed twenty-eight dollars for 28 days guarding Edward Fitzgerrel in Blackford jail in 1817
Posey County Commissioners Volume 2
  • Aaron Baker, Robert Galbraith, J.R. Craig all granted permits to sell foreign merchandice [sic]
1846 School Census district number four in Robinson Twp.  
  • James Fitzgerals - Francis aged 14, Levia aged 8, Jasper aged 12
  • Robb Twp. Education parents list - 1857 - John S. Fitzgerrell, 4 children 
Cox, Carroll & Gloria Cox. Posey County, Indiana: A Documented History 1815-1900, Vol. II, no imprint

 Military History
  • John Alexander Fitzgerald was 18 when he enlisted as a private [Civil War], died Feb. 27, 1863 of chronic deberiation (?)
  • 80th Regiment Co. F - John M. Wolf, Michael Dietz
  • 91st Regiment Company - Michael Dietz
A list of bounty paid by Lynn Township or by any of the citizens there of for volunteers or substitute under any of the calls of the president for volunteers.  The following list is for the last call only:
  • Eli Saltzman - $195
  • John Wilson - $208
  • Thomas Saltzman - $208
  • William Wilson - $25
  • Jacob Saltzman - $145.50
  • Abel Saltzman - $120
  • Christopher Wilson - $208
  • Alexander Wilson - $31
  • Issac Wilson - $140.50
  • George Saltzman - $65
Sale Bills, Account Books - Early account books frequently pick up names that are missed in the census records. . . . Sale bill of Michael Sweany estate 1813 includes William Meeks 

Rappites - While the Rappites lived in a closed society their business community was very dependent upon the surrounding neighborhood. . . . A letter dated 11/6/1814 speaks of the need for a closer post office and a post road. In 1815 the following did business . . . Jesse Wilson . . . William Wilson . . . John T. Moorehead (still in South Carolina) . . . 

One of the most interesting items pertaining to 1815 is a letter from Butler County, Pennsylvania by Caleb Mathews to Frederick Rapp. Very hard to read it speaks of his return trip to Pennsylvania after an apparent trip to Harmony [New Harmony]. Quoting with the spelling as in the letter: 

My mother and all her family is willing to cum, and I expect to move down in the spring. John Saltzman has sold and expects to move down in the spring and wants you to let him have a house and largiest farm you have to rent. Robert Wilson expects to move down int he spring and you to let him have a house and small farm as near mine as you can. Alexander Wilson will move down in the spring if he can sell his land. He has the offer of gun powder for it and he wants to no [know] if you will take it in pay of land. He wants you to let him no [know] if you please as quick as possible wheather you can take it or no and the hightest price you can give. There is several others that has a good prospect of seling and if agreeable will be down in the spring. Thur [There] is grate [great] alternation on harmony. It appears to be going to dislation fast. Thar [They're] taking the small houses to kep [keep] the big ones warm. Tho stil have a kind of harmony thar yet, sutch as drinking, cursing, swaining, fighting. The Nations is about to change the name of it and call it La Fance. [France]

Naturalization Records appear in many places in Posey County. Many people apparently filled out the papers around election time in order to vote, but never actually went into the Clerks Office to complete filing.  The following records pertaining to naturalization are found in either civil or in a few cases probate records in the books being used during the time period listed. None of these records list parentage etc., and only a very few port of entry or port of sailing
  • John S. Deitz came from Wastemberg, Germany and applied Feb. 21, 1853 and received it 1869.
Guardianships, Estates, Etc. - the following information is taken from the various Posey County records in the state archives . . . Many times only the original application letter or paper was ever presented to the court with no follow up, therefore it was not recorded in the order books for that period of time, hence no record recorded. Many consist of just one piece or scrap of paper.
  • Robert Highman made a statement in a title clearing statement that his brother Alexander Highman had the following children: John, Mathew & Sarah Highman all infants. Peter Saltzman bought the land. 
Criminal 
  • James Ferguson 1876 William Varner filed paper that he assaulted him with a knife
  • James Ferguson 1877 assault on Jane Herd
  • James Ferguson assault & battery on Peter Heckman Harmony Township JP Series 13, Vol. 10
  • James Ferguson assault on George Baldwin hollering & swearing, Harmony township, JP Series 13, Vol. 16
  • Joel Ferguson 1840 murder of Henry Casey. Wit: Thomas Alcorn Jr. & Sr., William Crabtree, John Cox, John Boyle, John S. Fitzgerald, Levi Ross, James Casey, Jacob Martin, Lawrence Heubner, Marinda Crabt[ree], John Hume, Azra Lee. He was never arrested, leaving the country and never known to have returned.
  • Edward Fitzgerral, 1817, theft, stays in court for several years
  • Larkin Fitzgerall & Frank Miller riot, Harmony Township series 13, Vol. 11
  • Stephen Fitzgerald assault & battery on James McDenrroint (?) Harmony Township JP Series 13 Vol. 11
  • Sophia Protzch 1877 assault & battery on Lydia Miller. Sophia could not speak English so John Walz translated for her. - probably not
Fitzgerrell Family Information
  • Achilles Graham md. Nancy Chism, Feb. 22, 1838
  • Achilles Graham b. Nov. 20, 1817
  • Nancy Graham (his wife) b. Dec. 22, 1817
  • George Washington Graham s/o Achilles & Nancy b. Feb. 10, 1839
  • William Henry Graham s/o Achilles & Nancy b. Dec. 4, 1841
  • John Archeilles Graham s/o Achilles & Nancy b. June 2, 1844
  • Mary Lucretia Fitzgerall d/o John S. & Nancy b. Dec. 23, 1847
  • Elizabeth Ann Fitzgerrell d/o John S. & Nancy b. April 17, 1850
  • Jane Eliza Fitzgerrell d/o John S. & Nancy b. Sep. 20, 1852
  • Nancy Jane Graham d/o George W. b. Aug. 10, 1860
  • Luis Edgar Fitzgerrell s/o John S. & Nancy b. April 23, 1858
  • Nancy Lucretia Carr d/o Henry & Salla b. Oct. 9, 1867
  • George Edgar Heubner s/o George & Mary b. Jan. 25, 1880
  • John Chism md. Sary Stokey, 8/13/1841 she was daughter of Elizabeth Stokey 1814
  • Elizabeth Chism md. Jesse Cherry /21/1831
  • Rachel Chism md. Thomas Graham Dec. 2, 1836
  • Mary Chism md. Robert Rudopph Oct. 6, 1840
  • William Chism md. Mary Fitzgerrell Feb. 6, 1845
  • Achilles Graham killed at a dance, d. Jan. 3, 1844
  • William Henry Graham, d. Oct. 4, 1843
  • John Achilles Graham, d. Aug. 24, 1844
  • Rosco Ray Privett s/o Joseph & Nancy Lucritia b. June 11, 1888, buried June 12, 1888
  • John Stanton Fitzgerrell b. May 17, 1819 Gibson County, s/o James b. Oct. 15, 1777, d. March 22, 1865 & Elizabeth Ray b. Dec. 22, 1818, d. Jan. 16, 1888
  • Mary Lucretia Fitzgerall b. Dec. 23, 1847 md. (--?--) Huebner
  • Elizabeth Ann Fitzgerrell b. April. 17, 1850, md. Louis Montgomery
  • Jane Eliza Fitzgerrell b. Sept. 20, 1852 md. Thomas A. Murphy
  • Luis Edgar Fitzgerrell b. April 23, 1858 md. Mollie Hatfield
  • Nancy (Chism) Graham was the daughter of John & Saray (Stokey) Chism who md. Aug. 13, 1811, md. 2nd Elizabeth Stokey June 10, 1814
  • Polly Chism b. Feb. 5, 1821 d/o John & Elizabeth Chism
  • Elizabeth Chism b. July 25, 1823 d/o John & Elizabeth Chism
  • Nancy Chism b. Dec. 25, 1818 d/o John & Elizabeth Chism
  • Sara Chism b. July 26, 1825 d/o John & Elizabeth Chism
Saltzman Family Information

John Saltzman b. in Hesia, Germany came to America during the Revolutionary War. Married & settled in Westmoreland County, PA. He was the father of 13 children, one of which is Michael Saltzman born of a twin to John Jr., Dec. 10, 1786, Peter, Daniel, George, Andy, David, Solomon, Hannah Durlin, Sarah Kiester, Mary Means, Catherine Wilson, Susan Mathew.  [the statement above is as written in the book. one of which is Michael Saltzman born of a twin to John Jr., Dec. 10, 1786, does not make sense to me.  It may be that John Saltzman of Germany was actually John Saltzman Jr. or Michael was his grandson.  Confusing!  The Peter above seems too young to be our Peter Saltzman/Salsman, he may be a brother of John Saltzman the immigrant.]

Gibson County Records
  • State vs. Derrett Fitzgerald assault & battery on Mary Furgeson 
  • William Embree guardian of Thomas Embree vs. James, Ruben, Derritt Fitzgerald money, 1824
Gibson County Marriages
  • Derrett Fitzjarald & Susannah Furguson 7/15/1818
  • Derritt Fitzgerald & Polly Slavin, 3/21/1826 
  • William H. Fitzjerrald & Rachel Alcorn 12/22/1831
  • Greenberry Montgomery & Eliza Fitzjerrald 8/25/1831
  • John Rutter & Saunda Fitzjerrald 7/22/1830
  • James Wilson & Eliza Emmerson, 8/15/1830
Posey County Land Records Twp. No. 5 South, Range No. 13 East
  • Section 21 - John Saltsman
  • Section 22 - Peter Saltzman 
  • Section 28 - Thomas Wilson, Michael Saltzman
  • Section 29 - John Saltzman
  • Section 30 - Robert Wilson
  • Section 31 - Robert Wilson, John Wilson, Robert Wilson
  • Section 32 - Lewis Wilson
  • Section 35 - Alexander Wilson
Marriage Consent
  • Dec. 25, 1827 - John Jonson statement that Cealy Wilson is over 18 and can marry Abner Coats 
Cox, Carroll & Gloria Cox. Posey County, Indiana: A Documented History, 1882-1900, Vol. III, Death Records, no imprint, nd.
  • Saltzman, (--?--) male white, cause of death still born. Lynn Twp., date of death 4/31/1882, father Thomas Saltzman, mother Matilda Saltzman, returned 5/31/1882, reported by S.O. Rawlings
  • Saltzman, George, 58, male white, lived Lynn Twp., widower, cause of death pneumonia, occupation laborer or farmer, born & died Lynn Tsp., date of death 1/23/1894(?), father Micheal Saltzman born PA, mother Catherine Bitner b. PA, returned 2/11/1884(?), reported by T.O. Hall. [I don't which year is correct, not found on Find-A-Grave]
  • Saltzman, Lelia 1 female white, born IN, d. Lynn Twp., cause of death pneumonia, date of death 3/7/1888, father George Saltzman, mother (--?--) Bailey, returned 3/31/1888, reported by S.O. Rawlings
  • Saltzman, Matilda 61, female white lived Lynn Twp., widow cause of death chronic malaria, occupation housekeeping, born Lynn Twp., d. Mt. Vernon, date of death 6/20/1897, father Solomon Saltzman(?) b. NC (not historically correct). mother Mary Orman b. NC, returned 7/2/1897, reported by T.J. Hall. [was her father Solomon Saltzman or her father-in-law?]
  • Saulman, Minnie [Saltzman?] 15 month female, white lived born, died Harmony Twp., cause of death entero colitis, date of death 9/23/1883, father W.R. Saulman b. IN, mother Lucinda Overman b. IN, returned 10/1/1883, reported by S. McDonald
  • Saultzman, Mrs. 62, female, white, a widow, date of death, 12/12/1882, died Harmony Twp., no place of birth or parentage information given, cause of death, winter fever, reported by D.D. Neal [no match found on Find-A-Grave]
Davis, Lulie. Abstracts of Wills of Washington County, Indiana, 1808-1902, no imprint, 1994.

Jacob Colglasure of Washington Co., IN, Nov. 10, 1822, probated Nov. 15, 1822, first will record pages 34-35, wife not named, sons - John, Abraham, Washington & Jacob; daughters - Mary McGrew, Rachel Findly, Susannah Sullenger, Abigail Colglasure & Matilda Underwood; executors - Jacob Doan, John Chenoweth; witnesses - James Gibbs & John Colglasure
Indiana Works Progress Administration. Index to Marriage Record Posey County, Indiana, 1850-1920, Vol. I, A-G, 1940.

Names, Date, Vol., Page
  • Diets, Louisa & Peter Deas, Feb. 1, 1862, C4, 478
  • Diets, Margarlena & Andrew Stalman, Nov 17, 1854, C3, 475
  • Dietz, Charles & Maggie Neuman Apr. 30, 1890 C10, 353
  • Dietz, Elizabeth & Charles Nebe, Oct. 31, 1880 C8 330
  • Dietz, Frederick & Anna Schnack, Mar. 17, 1901, C12, 582
  • Dietz, Fredericka & Charles Maurer, May 10, 1888, C10, 90
  • Dietz, Henry & Mary Kol, Sep. 9, 1861, C4, 433
  • Dietz, Henry & Anna B. Stallman, June 21, 1910, C14, 538
  • Dietz, Louise & John Krug Aug. 22, 1889, C10, 255
  • Dietz, Margaret & Conrad Kolp, Nov. 22, 1869(?), C6, 195
  • Dietz, Mary & Herbert E. Barton, Dec. 11, 1907, C14, 186
  • Dietz, Mary L. & Edward J. Schauss, Apr. 12, 1914, C15, 492
  • Dietz, Michael & Louisa Probst, Aug. 31, 1861, C4, 427 [this is Fredericka Probst]
  • Dietz, Olga M. & Willis N. Hamilton, Sep. 20, 1916, C16, 231
  • Dietz, William J. & Sophia L. Boerner, Aug. 5, 1890, C10, 379
  • Dietz, William P. & Ida Maus, Oct. 12, 1897, C12, 152
  • Eartman, Jacob & Magdalany Bechtold, Sept. 29, 1856, C3, 609 [this is Jacob Erkman]
  • Erkman, Jacob & Frederica Deitz, Apr. 27, 1876, C7, 370 - grandparents
  • Erkmann, George & Anna C. Hahn, Sep. 18, 1884, C9, 245
History of Posey County, Indiana, Chicago, IL: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886.
Indiana Works Progress Administration. Index to Marriage Record Posey County, Indiana, 1850-1920, Vol. II, H-Q, 1940.

Names, Date, Vol., Page
  • Probst, Louisa & Michael Dietz, Aug. 31, 1861, C4, 427 [this is Fredericka Probst, see above]
  • Probst, Louisa & John G. Deitz, June 20, 1867, C5, 590
  • Probst, Louisa & Jacob Wener, Nov. 21, 1871, C6, 418
  • Probst, Louisa & John G. Deitz, nd, C5, 486 
McConell, Darlene, comp. Posey County Indiana 1870 Federal Census, no imprint, nd
  • Harmony Twp., Aug. 15 - 231-246 - Fitzgerald, Stephen, 52 male, farmer, $12,000 RE, $8000 PE, IN
    • Fanny, 52, f, keeping house, IL
    • Nancy 27, f, keeping house, IL
    • Catherine, 30 f, IN
    • Stephen, 22, m, IL
    • Charles 16 m, IL
    • Fanny, 11 f, IN
    • Edward, 10 m, IN
    • Emily 7 f, IN
    • Sturm, Leonard, 22 m, farm laborer, IL 
  • Harmony Twp., Aug. 16 - 240-255 - Fitzgerald, John 63 m, Retired farmer, GA
    • Rebecca 59 f, keeping house, TN
    • Matilda 29 f, domestic, IN
    • Sarah J. 26 f, IN
    • Rhoda, 20 f, IN
    • Marrison, 25 m, farm laborer, $0 RE, $250 PE, IN
    • Della Jane 5 f, IN
    • Catherine Bell 2 f, IN
  • Marrs Twp., June 24 - 341-345 - Probet(?) [Probst], Andrew, 52 m, farmer, $400 RE, $175 PE, Hanover
    • Sophia 50 f, keeping house, Hanover
  • Marrs Twp., June 28 - 360-363 - Werkman, Philip 26 m, farmer, Hesse-Darmstadt
    • Sophia, 20 f, keeping house, md. Dec. IN
  • Robb Twp., June 14 - 30-33 - Werkman, Phoebe, Mrs. 43, f, farmer $100 RE, $0 PE, IL
    • Margaret M. 17 f, domestic, IL
    • Lucretia Ellen 15 f, domestic, IL
    • William Henry 11 m, IN
    • Cenia Jane (twin) 9 f, IN
    • Sarah Ann (twin) 9 f, IN
    • James Sherman, 4 m, IL
  • Robb Twp., June 23 - 100-117 - Fitzgerald, John L., 52 m, farmer, IN
    • Nancy 56 f, keeping house, IL
    • Elizabeth 20, f, IN
    • Jane E. 17 f, IN
    • Edgar 12 m, IN
    • Carr, Nancy Lucretia 3 f, IL
    • McThompson, Michael, 26 m, farm laborer, IN
  • Robb Twp., June 23 - 111-118 - Fitzgerald, Daniel, 46 m, farmer $9250 RE, $2500 PE, IN
    • Hariet, 44 f, keeping house, IL
    • Florence A. 17 f, IL
    • Laura 15 f, IL
    • Elizabeth 14 f, IN
    • Angeline 9 f, IN
    • Mary Jane 6 f, IN
    • Dan'l Graham, 3 m, IN 
Posey County Indiana Marriages 1815-1825, no imprint, nd
    • Mathis, Aquilla & Susannah Saltzman, 4/1/1817 by John Stapleton Esqr., 4/3/1817
  • Saltzman, Andrew & Kesiah Wilson, 4/12/1818 by John Graddy, Esqr., 4/14/1818
  • Saltzman, Daniel & Anna Coats, 10/22/1818 by John Graddy, Esqr., 10/22/1818
  • Saltzman, Peter & Polly Lynn, 6/22/1820 by John Dunbarr Esqr. 6/22/1820
  • Saltzman, John & Sheella Mathews 8/2/1820 by John Dunbarr Esqr., 8/17/1820
  • Means, William & Mary Saltzman, 8/16/1820 by John Dunbarr Esqr, 8/17/1820
  • Saltzman, Michail & Catharine Ridner, 6/21/1823 by John Dunbarr Esqr, 6/24/1823
Putnam County, Indiana Marriages, 4 July 1822 - 30 April 1831, The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol. 26, No. 4, Dec. 1986, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society.

Putnam was formed in 1822 from Vigo, Owen & Wabash (NP unorganized), named in honor of Gen. Israel Putnam of the Revolutionary War. Greencastle is the county seat . . . These records were compiled by Jane Darlington from the microfilm of Marriage Book I, Genealogy Division, Indiana State Library. Where no marriage return was found, the date preceded by lic. is when the license was issued. Other abbreviations are JP [Justice of the Peace], PG [Preacher of the Gospel], MG [Minister of the Gospel] . . . 
  • Benefield, James of Henry Co. & Smith, Pllly, John Denny JP, 27 May 1827
  • Coats, Andrew & Wright, Mary, lic. 20 Aug. 1829
  • Coots, Andrew & Wright, Mary lic. 20 June 1829
  • Cornwell, James & Lumbrick, Elizabeth, Joshua Gulbert, JP 3 Jan. 1828
  • Frank, Andrew & Wright, Lena, B. Wright, JP, 29 Mar. 1827
  • Hunter, Lewis & Gentle, Nancy, Benjamine Jones, PG, 12 Mar 1829 
  • Mastiller, Joseph & Wright, Jessie, lic. 14 July 1829
  • Miller, John & Parish, Willy, lic. 26 Feb. 1829
  • Meek, James & Staley, Demira lic. 26 14 Apr. 1828
  • Mullinix, Jonathan & Wright, Cintha lic. 26 Sept. 1828
  • Parish, Able & Rush, Carsheba, Rolens McRunnels, PG 18 Mar. 1829
  • Parish, Reuben & Lane, Cintha, Rollens McRunnels, PG, 8 Feb. 1831
  • Parrish, Henry & Russel, Ann, Benjamin Wright JP, 14 Sep. 1828 [7?]
  • Shepard, Daniel & McGill, Betsy, lic. 6 May 1828
  • Steward, James & Wright, Lucinda, Benjamin Wright, JP, 24 Dec. 1829
  • Wright, Hosea & Johnston, Susan, lic. 25 Jan. 1830
Stern, Malcolm.Ten Commandments for Genealogists, The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol. 26, No. 4, Dec. 1986, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society 
  1. I am a genealogist dedicated to true knowledge about the families I am researching.
  2. Thou shalt use family traditions with caution & only as clues.
  3. Thou shalt not accept as gospel every written record or printed word.
  4. Thou shalt not hang nobility or royalty on your family tree without verifying with experts.
  5. Thou shalt clearly label the questionable & the fairy tale.
  6. Thou shalt handle all records in such a way that the next users will find them in the same condition you did.
  7. Thou shalt credit those who help you & ask permission of those whose work you use.
  8. Thou shalt not query any source of information without supplying postage.
  9. Thou shalt respect the sensitivities of the living in whatever you record but tell the truth about the dead.
  10. Thou shalt not become a genealogical teacher or authority without appropriate training & certification. 
Tuohy, Martin. Land for Sale, Connections, Spring/Summer 2007, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 2007. 

Researching Hoosier family history at the National Archives - Great Lakes Region, Chicago Federal Land Records, 1807-1858. 

Only fragmentary & scattered historical records survive about Hoosiers in early 1800s Indiana. Most aspects of ordinary persons' lives were never documented, and the primary recorder of human events - local government - was limited & weak. Records about US government sales of public domain lands to individual purchasers, therefore, constitute one of the broadest surviving historical sources about the inhabitants of early Indiana. Federal land records can be used to track the migration of individuals and families to Indiana and also their subsequent movements within the state, their work toward prosperity during the boom years of 1815 to 1818 and the mid-1830s, their setbacks and failures during the depressions that began in 1819 and 1837, and - for many - their need to start over by moving on.

In certain instances, records about federal land sales in Indiana also provide hints about military service, widowed or divorced women and their children, freed or free-born African Americans, and Native American families. Many women are listed by name in the records. European immigrants are also documented as purchasers, but US citizenship or, at minimum, a declaration of intention to become a US citizen was required in most instances before filing land entry papers. Veterans of the US military who were awarded bounty lands and squatters who filed claims of preemption to purchase the parcels they occupied were not required to become US citizens. Federal land records occasionally provide hints about the death of a purchaser, the names of heirs and the changing fortunes of a family. . . . 

Federal land records are complex in their organization. Their effective research use requires a working knowledge of early Indiana migration routes, settlement patterns and economic history. Most records of federal land sales are organized by federal land districts and then by the means of acquisition or by legal descriptions of the land parcels. . . . Many persons who began purchasing a parcel did not complete the process, relinquished part of the parcel, or had their attempt to secure a deed to the land (called a patent) rejected or canceled by the General Land Office, so many different types of federal land records survive that document the steps in the purchase process. Modern published indexes to the names of patent holders, although crucial for the use of otherwise unindexed records, are sometimes incomplete and require comparison with other indexes that overlap or duplicate their coverage. . . . 

A researcher who wants to explore federal land records for Indiana must understand the different historical paths to purchasing or acquiring federal land parcels in order to follow the different archival paper trails that resulted.
  • Continental Congress, Confederation Congress & US Congress all dealt with Indian, French & British claims prior to American Revolution
  • 1798 legislation that created War Department included military bounty land grants for American Revolution service
  • Land Act of May 18, 1796 - orderly survey of lands northwest of Ohio River, Secretary of State issued patents
  • Act of 1800 created four district land offices in the Northwest Territory
  • 1801-1820s - Indiana land sold out of Cincinnati office
  • 1804-1861 - Indiana land sold out of Vincennes office, some Illinois land sold from this office as well
  • 1808-1855 - Indiana land sold out of Jeffersonville office
  • 1812 General Land Office created to oversee public land sales
From the first sale on December 17, 1800, until June 30, 1820, a purchaser could acquire at minimum a 320 acre parcel of land at auction, with an opening bid of $2 per acre & a cash payment in full within one year. One could also purchase land on credit with a 5% down payment, followed by the remaining balance in installments over the next four years. The two means of purchasing land became known as "cash entries" and "credit entries" and the surviving land entry files are organized in part by those two types of purchases . . . 

The process of acquiring land from the US government usually involved a person or group of people (such as a company) entering a claim for the land with a local land office after winning an auction among numerous bidders or by purchasing it at a fixed price. Two officials worked in each land office, a receiver of monies and a registrar of the land parcels. . . . The receiver issued a receipt, while the registrar issued a warrant for survey of the parcel. The transaction would be recorded in a register of receipts issued by the local land office. On completion of the survey, the surveyor's field notes were recorded in a township plat book.  . . . 

If the purchaser completed the purchase by making all payments, the local land office registrar would issue a final certificate to the purchaser and send notice to the General Land Office for a patent . . . [after a] review the certificate in relation to the entry papers and, in most cases, [the patent was approved]. . . . The patent then would usually be sent to the local land office, where the purchaser could present the certificate to obtain the patent document. . . . 

The problem of settlers entering & improving lands in a cash-poor economy caused widespread defaults on the installment payments. Several Acts of Congress between 1806 and the late 1810s provided extensions of time and other forms of relief for credit-based purchasers . . . The Panic of 1819 worsened the indebtedness of many residents . . . Congress abolished credit purchases as of July 1, 1820. The price of land was also reduced to $1.25 an acre, and the minimum parcel was reduced to 160 acres, and later to 80 acres. . . . Congress continued to pass additional relief laws that allowed more time for the payment of outstanding balances by credit purchasers. Many purchasers under the old credit system of 1800 to 1820 continued to make installment payments on their parcels until 1832. 

In the state of Indiana, new federal land districts were opened in the southern, western, and then northern sections of the state with land offices at Terre Haute (1820-1823), which moved to Crawfordsville (1823-1853); Brookville (1820-1825), which relocated to Indianapolis (1825-1876); Fort Wayne (1823-1852); and La Porte (1833-1839), which moved to Winamac (1840-1855). The existing land offices at Vincennes and Jeffersonville continued to sell parcels within their district boundaries. 

The National Archives - Great Lakes Region preserves records of federal land sales from all land offices that existed in Indiana during various periods. . . . 

Squaters, land speculators, army veterans who held bounty land warrants, Native American landholders, and inheritors of federal lands from 1817 through the 1850s are also documented in the records of the US Circuit Court for the District of Indiana and the parallel US District Court for the District of Indiana  (Record Group 21). The most common series of federal court records that contain evidence about landholders' disputes are mixed case files, complete record books, and order books. All are organized by date or by case sequence, but the order books sometimes contain a type of name index. . . . 

Veterans of US military service from the Revolutionary War up to the Mexican War could obtain warrants for bounty land or land scrip, according to the provisions of numerous Congressional Acts between 1788 and 1855. Land scrip could be used like cash to pay for part or all of a parcel. . . . The awarding of bounty-land warrants to veterans ended in 1858, and the warrants' redemption value expired in 1863. . . . 

The Bureau of Land Management maintains a searchable online database of cash-entry patents and homestead entries for public domain states, including Indiana, at www.glorecords.blm.gov . . . 

Researchers would do well to utilize several overlapping indexes or databases about land sales, rather than one index or publication alone. Some purchases of federal land parcels are omitted from the various published indexes to federal land sales, including online databases, but appear in the original archive records in the National Archives - Great Lakes Region.  
Votes for the Knox County Delegates to the First Indiana Territorial Convention, at Vincennes, 20 Dec. 1802, The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 1, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society.

Slavery was the issue. Before Indiana Territory was formed in 1900, people of the Illinois country, which became part of the Indiana Territory, had petitioned Congress several times for admission of slavery. This was contrary to Article VI of the Ordinance of 1787. Again, before Governor [William Henry] Harrison arrived at the Territorial Capitol, a second petition with 270 names was sent to Congress advocating a limited form of slavery in Indiana. They argued it would attract the wealthier settlers who were settling across the Mississippi. The movement won support from the French settlements who had many slaveholders. 

In 1802 Indiana Territory was comprised of Knox & Clark in Indiana and Randolph & St. Clair in Illinois. Responding to requests Harrison, a slaveholder, called for an election of twelve delegates to the convention. Some other resolutions, such as reducing amount of land settlers were required to buy, were included. Congress did not take favorable action.

In 1803 action was taken by the Governor and Judges providing that Negroes and mulattoes brought into the Territory continue to perform services due their masters and that contracts between master and servant were assignable. Rather than risk having their families separated by sale, probably many Negroes welcomed coming into "free" territory and continuing to serve their former masters. The first federal census of Indiana in 1820 shows some slaves still in Indiana.

The original of the following document is in the William H. English Collection, University of Chicago Library, Box 3, Folder 33.

[List of voters and for whom they voted for:]
  • Walter Wilson - William Henry Harrison & Luke Decker & Gen. W. Johnston  & Robert Hamilton
At three of the Clock in the afternoon of the 9th Day of December 1802 the pole for the Election of four Members for the County of Knox to the General Convention of the Territory was closed when William Henry Harrison, William Prince, Luke Decker & Francis Vigo were duly elected, the Members on the Poll standing as stated on the other side. 

In Testimony whereof as well I Jacob Kuykendal Coroner of the Said County as Pierre Gamelin & John Ockeltree Judges of the Election have hereto set our hands, the same being Attested by the Poll keepers the Day & Year above Written. . . . 

Harrison, of course, is well known bu who were these other early movers & shakers?  William Prince, born in Ireland, served as sheriff, justice of the peace, captain in the militia, member of the Council, judge, auditor of Indiana Territory in 1810, prosecuting attorney in Knox, Warrick & Gibson counties.  Additionally he is said to have been Harrison's messenger to the Indians.  Luke Decker, born in Virginia is said to have come to Knox County in 1784; was a justice of the peace, judge of the court of Common Pleas, Lt. Col. in the militia, representative in the first Assembly. Francois or Francis Vigo, born in Sardinia, espoused the cause of the early American nation, sacrificed his personal fortune to buy supplies for the men of his friend George Rogers Clark. Vigo served in the Spanish army at New Orleans before becoming a fur trader & land owner as well as a major in the militia.   
Wagner, Beverly. Cemetery Inscriptions Vol. II, no imprint, Wagner, 1982.

Cemetery inscriptions of Green Twp., Monroe Twp., Stony Creek Twp. of Randolph Co., IN. 

Popular Run Cemetery, Stony Creek Twp., Section 12, Town 19, Range 12, found on the south side of County Road 300 South, just east of the crossroad with County Road 900 West. There is a small church on the northwest corner of this crossroad which bears the name Philadelphia United Baptist Church. This land originally belonged to Popular Run Friend's Church (Quaker) . . . Rows were recorded beginning on the west edge reading north to south.
  • Hunt - Willie W. s/o JW & MH Hunt, d. 28 Apr. 1888 ae. 19-8-13 row 3
  • Hunt - Mother Eleanor w/o J.W. 1837-1906 row 3
  • Hunt - John W. 69th IN Company D, 13th Army Corps, 1840-1919, row 3
  • Hunt - Mother Martha H. w/o J.W. 1840-1875, row 3
  • Hunt - JWH foot marker, row 3
  • Hunt - Lilly B., d/o JW & MH Hunt, d. 30 Aug. 1873 ae 1-1-6 epitaph, row 3
  • Hunt - JWH foot marker, row 3 
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