Small Notebook - New England / Virginia

Brooke, Ted, trans. "Buckingham County 1788 Personal Property Tax List, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2017. [Virginia Personal Property Tax List, Buckingham Co., 1783, mf RG48: Auditor of Public Acconts, Library of Virginia, Richmond]

Continued from Volume 55, No. 2, Column headings:

• Date 1788
• Persons Nameds Charged with the Tax
• Names of White Tithes
• [Number of White Tithes]
• Blacks Above 16 [number]
• Blacks Under 16 & Above 12 [number]
• Horses [number]
• Studs
• Rate pr season
• Carriages

Note: No quantities are given for the last three columns: Studs, Rate pr Season and Carriages except in rare cases and are only shown here where they appear in the tax list. It appears that "Names of White Tithes" are given only where different from the name of "Persons names

Small Notebook - NGS / Indiana

Bates, Alan, et al. "Falls Cities Ferries: A Note," Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. XCV, No. 3, Sept. 1999.

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Carter, James. Diseases & Death in the Nineteenth Century: A Genealogical Perspective, National Genealogical Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4, Dec. 1988.

Abstract: The study of diseases and causes of death yields important findings for the genealogist. Death certificates (limited in number prior to the twentieth century) contain useful information for identifying ancestors; the mortality schedules of several nineteenth-century federal censuses provide the month and cause of death; and church registers, within some denominations, yield some information on deaths of members. However, having a knowledge of the meanings of variou medical terms used in these records is also of interest to genealogical researchers. Information obtained in this manner not only better informs them about their forebears but also could lead to the detection of a familial or inherited disease in specific familes. To help the genealogist in the study of medically oriented records, this article treats three areas. First, a brief history of medicine and the medical profession during the nineteenth century is

Book Purge

Hamilton County Courthouse, McLeansboro, IL

Neff, Lea. Abstracts of Wills Hamilton County, Illinois, 1821-1915, Wayne City, IL: Family Ties, 1986.

Page 14 - Samuel M. Butler of Dahlgren, Will Box #1, File #134, written 10/5/1888, age 69, witnesses: A.M. Grigg, W.W. Hunter, no date of death, filed, 12/31/1888, real estate & personal property, Exe. wife Mary J. Butler. Heirs: son Charles W. Butler, daughter Mary Wisler

Page 32 - William W. Fitzgarrold of McLeansboro, Will Box #1, File #141, written 11/17/1890 age 63, wit: Herman Vorderbruggen, George W. Gross, Ed. H. Bowen all of McLeansboro, died 11/26/1890, filed 11/28/1890, real estate in Witchata, [Wichita?] KS & personal property, Exe. son Jerry Miah F. Fitzgarrold.  Heirs: son William Anderson Fitzgarrold, dau: Rebecka Ellen Fitzgarrold, Celista Jane (Fitzgarrold) Bond, grandsons: John Acker Fitzgarrold, William Thomas Fitzgarrold, granddau: Elizabeth Jane Fitzgarrold, Amy Adaline Fitzgarrold

Page 34 - Louisa Jane Garrison of Dahlgren, probate section B, Box #66, FIle #20, written 11/22/1905, wit: H.M. Echols, J.H. Voliva, L. Auxier, died 5/24/1907, filed 5/24/1907, real estate & personal property, ex: Elias Chalon Williamson, heirs: son Ambrose Maulding & his heirs, no relation given: Sidney Wilson Irwin, Elias Chalon Williamson

Page 45 - John Hopkins, Probate Section B, Box #1, File #14, date: 9/10/1834, wit: Robert Vanderventer, Mason Morris, filed: 9/25/1834, real estate & personal property, ex: Benjamine Hood.

Book Purge - Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Dobson, David. The Original Scots Colonis of Early America 1612-1783, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. 1989.

Page vi - The record for each individual contains a maximum of twenty-three points of information in the following order: name, date of birth/baptism, place of birth, occupation, place of education, cause of banishment (where applicable), residence [res], names of parents [pts], date of emigration and whether voluntarily shipped [sh] or involuntarilty transported [tr], port of embarkation, destination, name of ship, place of arrival [arr], date of arrival, place of settlement, name of spouse, names of children, date of death, place of death, where buried, probate record & source citation. 

I've excluded the Darien Colony settlers and most of the island settlements such as Barbados, Jamaica and Leeward Islands. 

Book Purge - Genealogies

Arthaud, John. A Head Family History, Boston, MA: Newbury Street Press, 1999. 

Pages 145-152 Appendix B - Lingan Fmily  

George Lingan d. Calvert Co., MD ca. 1710, md. Anne (--?--). Children: 

1. Thomas Lingan md. Martha Cockshutt

2. Anne b. say 1670, d. by 8/7/1718 md. Edward Boteler

3. Martha Lingan md. Josiah Wilson, a gentleman, who died in Prince Georges Co., MD b/t 11 Nov & 5 Dec. 1717. His will named his wife Martha, five sons and 1 daughter. Sons Josiah & Lingan were named executors and the first division was to occur when Lingan reached 16.  Josiah was the son of James.  See Shearer, Ralph & Star Wilson Rowland. Wilsons & Burchells & Related Families, 1608-1976 for more information. 

4. Katherine Lingan md. 1) ca. 1690 Henry Boteler (brother of Edward above), b. say 1667 Calvert Co., MD, d. Prince Georges Co., MD 1713. 2) by 1722 Richard Normandsell.  Richard died by 1729. Katherine died by November Court 1725. 

1a. Martha Lingan b. b/t 1706 & 1722

1b. Ann Lingan b. before 1722

1c. Elizabeth Lingan b. before 1722

1d. Thomas Lingan b. b/t 1722 & 1734

1e. George Lingan b. b/t 1722 & 1734

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Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, England

Continental Historical Bureau. History of Jefferson County, Illinois 1810-1962, Mt. Vernon, IL: Continental Historical Bureau, 1962.

Pages 2-3 -  The admission of the Illinois to the Union occurred December 3, 1818; the County of Jefferson was organized March 26, 1819, a periof of 113 days later.  The official beginning of Mt. Vernon took place June 7, 1819, seventy-three days after the organization; it wa only 186 days after the state had officially been admitted to the Union until Mt. Vernon was officially born.

The procedure took place int he following manner: After Illinois became the twenty-first state of the federal union and the legislature was in legal functioning order, an Act of the Legislature was passed March 26, 1819, which created Jefferson County. The Act also provided for five Commissioners to select a permanent seat of justice and to designate it as such. These Commissioners were appointed yb the Legislature instead of the citizens of the county. The five who were authorized wree: Ambrose Maulding, Lewis Barker. James Richardson and Richard Graham. 

Pages N4-N5 - New Hope (Webb) Missionary Baptist Church.  The exact date this church was organized is not known.  It is on record of being ost to the annual Baptist Association in the year 1858.  It is presumed the church existed for quite some time previous to this date. 

The first minutes on record are of 1862. New Hope had no pastor at that time. Messengers to the