--part1_d.adc84b7.2710b0c8_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_d.adc84b7.2710b0c8_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <GrannyP172@aol.com> From: GrannyP172@aol.com Full-name: GrannyP172 Message-ID: <fb.c088d38.2710afc2@aol.com> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 12:56:34 EDT Subject: Re: [GABALDWI] Headright County To: crilley@eramp.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 40 I have never heard the word Headright, but I do understand from a book in Baldwin's Historical Library that part of Baldwin County was to be another county but the resident families asked to be kept in Baldwin. This was north of Milledgeville near what is now the Old Myrick Plantation. It has confused me that before the Revolution was won that our ancestor and his wife, father-in-law and perhaps mother-in-law fled to Warren County, Ga. to escape from the British prison. The older couple stayed in Warren Co.. The younger couple owned land in Washington county. After the Revolution when the Baldwin area was opened, ( I think it was then called the Meriwether District) the children came from Virginia and settled near the Myrick Plantation, and they willed Washington County land to their heirs. I have always wondered if this portion of Baldwin County land was part of Washington County land. Where was the split when the District lines were changed or when their children arrived from Va. after the Rev. if they moved further east. Our ancestor is buried on the old family land, and his grave was marked as a Revolutionary soldier by the DAR in the 1930's. His grave is on the old Parham land, near the Myrick Plantation. It would have been near the river, Oconee or Little River, I cannot tell with the lake as it is today. There must be maps of county line changes in the Archives there but I did not look for them as i didn't know there had been so many changes when I visited the Archives Library. This Washington county land finally changed hands after the whole male part of the family had moved to Meriwether County to claim Lottery land as being orphans of the Rev., and three generations had past before it was willed to some great great grandchildren of the Meriweather County Parham family after the War for Southern Independence. Sorry this is no answer to your question, just more questions, and what and where was the Headright County? Sara Parham --part1_d.adc84b7.2710b0c8_boundary--