I found a copy of a paper about some land being surveyed...... I'd have to find it again to get the details off of it.....but does that mean that if it was being surveyed for them, then it was theirs? It was a bounty for the war I believe. But now i'm curious :) Well, i already was, but i put it away before I could ask LOL Alli > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Reynolds" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 7:26 PM > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] heritage > > >> Good question, Joyce. I don't think it had to do with the land being >> ceded by the Cherokee so much as it had to do with the bounty warrants >> from the Revolution and the War of 1812. My James L. "Logan" Jones >> left Wayne County in the 1820s spent a few years in Tennessee >> (although I don't know where yet with James Jones being such a common >> name,) then moved westward into Missouri by 1834 or 35 where he lived >> out the remainder of his long life. Logan was born in Wayne County >> where his grandfather, Joshua Jones, built the first ironworks in >> Kentucky. Joshua was a revolutionary patriot, but I haven't yet >> located any warrant for bounty land. He certainly knew about it as a >> surveyor. There was ample opportunity in Wayne County early on, but by >> the time Logan reached his majority, the land was mostly all claimed >> due to military grants from the Revolution and headrights grants. I >> had wondered about why Logan left and just never connected it until I >> saw his father served in the War of 1812 (here's a roster of Wayne >> county men who fought in that war, Buttram/Bertram among them: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kywayne/warof1812.html) and would >> have received bounty land for his service, but neither James Sr. nor >> his other sons left Wayne County, only James Jr. So it hit me between >> the eyes while thinking about the answer for you he was probably among >> those who exited south then westward to claim bounty land in Missouri. >> I haven't found a military warrant for Logan's land in MO, but he >> might have claimed one in TN on a warrant transferred to him by his >> father. Likewise, he may have lived on land registered by his >> grandfather - Joshua was a surveyor for a time for NC and he assisted >> in finding bounty land in TN for revolutionary veterans in the TN >> Military District. Surveyors were paid in rights - land - in the area >> and Joshua likely had a good deal of TN land because he surveyed a >> great deal of it and his land in Wayne County 400 acres on Elk creek >> was surveyed and registered as part of his rights. Interestingly it >> is this Jones line we were told all my life was part Cherokee, then my >> Grandma told us about 5 years before her death no, it was part Arapaho >> and part Blackfoot. I don't believe that last at all, and only a slim >> glimmer on the Cherokee. No evidence I can find at all. >> >> Send me the other names off list and I'll see what I have on them and >> maybe we can connect the dots. Do you have access to Heritage Quest? >> If so, my distant cousin Augusta Phillips wrote an interesting history >> of Wayne County in the 1930s and it includes many, many biographical >> notes. Interestingly, Mark Twain had connections to Wayne County. >> His uncle, married one of my great aunts. All kinds of interesting >> connections in this one little county! >> >> Susan