Forgive me if you receive this a second time, but I never saw it hit the list first time. Don't know if it didn't make or if I am just having a classic senior moment: The area was called District of Augusta, the St Paul Parish, then Richmond Co. Some of the early colonial wills of the area were taken to England, stored at the Tower of London and eventually returned to the state of GA. Will books A, AA and some loose ones were recovered. Will book B was never found. However, most people don't realise that there are MANY original American records still languishing in various repositories in the United Kingdom. The ones recovered are [to the best of my knowledge] now in the Georgia state archives. A book of abstracts of these wills - Abstracts of Colonial Wills of the State of Georgia 1733-1777 - was published in 1962 by The Atlanta Town Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Carol Learn more about Tourette Syndrome and how you can help www.tsa-usa.org Care2 make the world greener !
The area was called District of Augusta, the St Paul Parish, then Richmond Co. Some of the early colonial wills of the area were taken to England, stored at the Tower of London and eventually returned to the state of GA. Will books A, AA and some loose ones were recovered. Will book B was never found. However, most people don't realise that there are MANY original American records still languishing in various repositories in the United Kingdom. The ones recovered are [to the best of my knowledge] now in the Georgia state archives. A book of abstracts of these wills - Abstracts of Colonial Wills of the State of Georgia 1733-1777 - was published in 1962 by The Atlanta Town Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Carol Learn more about Tourette Syndrome and how you can help www.tsa-usa.org Care2 make the world greener !
Hi Joe and Group, Joe, thanks for the clear explanation of Richmond, Columbia, and St. Paul. I haven't looked at many deeds in Columbia Co., but I have looked at deed books in other GA counties. It isn't unusual to find transactions for land located in one county recorded in another county. Sometimes the Grantor or the Grantee didn't live in the county where the land was located, so the deed may have been recorded in the home county of the Grantor or Grantee. Sometimes the Grantee lived nearer the county seat of a neighboring county than to his own, so he took the deed to be recorded in the closer location. Just one more reason for always checking neighboring counties. Pat Crabtree Moncks Corner, SC
Posted on: Columbia Co. Ga Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Columbia/546 Surname: CALDWELL ------------------------- Is anyone else researching or has information on the Caldwell Family before 1850?
Hello Joe, I am interested in the publication of the history of Columbia Co. Can you give more details, when it might come out and where I can get a copy. Your name sounds familar. I have some Tankersley''s in my line. I have a Robert Tankersley who married Nannett Blanchard who was my 2nd cousin. You may know my father, Hugh Lovelace Fuller of Evans. Thanks for any info you might have. Cindy Fuller Weathersbee
Dear Stephanie, Thanks for your information on Dr Casey's articles. This is my Basil Neal. I also found some other interesting tidbits. You also had the will of Wyatt L. Chamblin. He is my 3rd great grandfather. Also, you had some articles on the Magruder's. My 3rd great grandmother was Mary Magruder. Her father was John Magruder. George Magruder was probally kin to them. I don't have alot on the Magruders but would appreciate any info on them. Also in my line are Fullers,Gunby, Flint, Lovelace, Smalley, Briscoe, Beall, O'Neal, Hardin,Eubank, Scott,Blanchard, Tankersley, etc..... If you know of any more info on any of these, I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, Cindy Fuller Weathersbee
Joe, Thanks for the clear explanation. I had searched through the Genweb pages for the county histories, and I just wasn't getting the whole picture. Those GA counties confuse me so. Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: <JJTank@aol.com> To: <GACOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 9:07 PM Subject: [GACOLUMB] Columbia, Richmond, St. Pauls Parrish, etc. > Listmembers, > > A great part of east central Georgia was St. Paul's Parish up to 1777, when > Richmond County was created and it reverted to St. Paul's for a time during > the British occupation and then Richmond again by 1783. Columbia county was > cut off in December 1790. McDuffie was cut from Columbia and part of Warren > County in 1870. > Some records are mixed between Richmond County and Columbia. In my > experience this has occurred when a deed was made and signed before 1790, > when it was Richmond, and not recorded for years afterward and when it was > recorded the name of the county had changed. Thus we can find records as old > as 1783 and perhaps older in Columbia when the transaction was actually made > on Richmond soil prior to December 1790. > > Also I have found at least one land transaction in another county recorded in > Columbia. > > Let me hear your experience on this issue. > Joe Tankersley > Appling, Georgia > > > ==== GACOLUMB Mailing List ==== > Suggestions or comments? Contact me at ListAdmin@whale-mail.com >
Dorothy, Thanks, I found out from someone that they were the same. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Warnock" <dwarnock@pcnow.net> To: <GACOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [GACOLUMB] Columbia/Richmond County question > Sydney, I will have to check on that for you. Will get back to you in a few > days. > Dorothy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bruce Cardner <BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net> > To: <GACOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:40 AM > Subject: [GACOLUMB] Columbia/Richmond County question > > > > Dorothy, > > Thanks for the response about the two. I also need to know if Richmond was > > originally known as St. Paul's Parish. I am asking all these questions > > trying to figure why various records indicate different places, but nobody > > moved. <grin> > > Sydney Cardner > > > > > > ==== GACOLUMB Mailing List ==== > > Suggestions or comments? Contact me at ListAdmin@whale-mail.com > > > > > > > ==== GACOLUMB Mailing List ==== > Suggestions or comments? Contact me at ListAdmin@whale-mail.com >
Posted on: Columbia Co. Ga Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Columbia/545 Surname: Folds, Eads ------------------------- Hannah Eads married George Folds, Jr. in either Columbia County or Richmond Co., GA. I think that George Folds, Jr. was a brother to my John Folds who married Mary Wilkins 1792 in Columbia County, GA. My John Folds moved to Jasper co., Ga in 1811 but George Folds apparently died in Columbia County ca 1827. See Columbia Co., GA deeds: Deed Book X, pages 404-406; Deed Book X, pages 392-393; and Deed Book Y, pages 138-139. See Columbia Co. Tax Digests too. I think that the father of John Folds and George Folds, Jr. was a George Folds, Sr. of Richmond Co., GA. Many land records on him but nothing found yet concerning his family. Very happy to share information.
Posted on: Columbia Co. Ga Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Columbia/544 Surname: Folds, Eads ------------------------- Hannah Eads married George Folds, Jr. in either Columbia County or Richmond Co., GA. I think that George Folds, Jr. was a brother to my John Folds who married Mary Wilkins 1792 in Columbia County, GA. My John Folds moved to Jasper co., Ga in 1811 but George Folds apparently died in Columbia County ca 1827. See Columbia Co., GA deeds: Deed Book X, pages 404-406; Deed Book X, pages 392-393; and Deed Book Y, pages 138-139. I think that the father of John Folds and George Folds, Jr. was a George Folds, Sr. of Richmond Co., GA. Many land records on him but nothing found yet concerning his family. Very happy to share information.
Sydney, I will have to check on that for you. Will get back to you in a few days. Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Cardner <BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net> To: <GACOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:40 AM Subject: [GACOLUMB] Columbia/Richmond County question > Dorothy, > Thanks for the response about the two. I also need to know if Richmond was > originally known as St. Paul's Parish. I am asking all these questions > trying to figure why various records indicate different places, but nobody > moved. <grin> > Sydney Cardner > > > ==== GACOLUMB Mailing List ==== > Suggestions or comments? Contact me at ListAdmin@whale-mail.com > >
Listmembers, A great part of east central Georgia was St. Paul's Parish up to 1777, when Richmond County was created and it reverted to St. Paul's for a time during the British occupation and then Richmond again by 1783. Columbia county was cut off in December 1790. McDuffie was cut from Columbia and part of Warren County in 1870. Some records are mixed between Richmond County and Columbia. In my experience this has occurred when a deed was made and signed before 1790, when it was Richmond, and not recorded for years afterward and when it was recorded the name of the county had changed. Thus we can find records as old as 1783 and perhaps older in Columbia when the transaction was actually made on Richmond soil prior to December 1790. Also I have found at least one land transaction in another county recorded in Columbia. Let me hear your experience on this issue. Joe Tankersley Appling, Georgia
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Posted on: Columbia Co. Ga Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Columbia/543 Surname: COBBS, JENKINS, JINKINS, FOALDS, FOLDS, HUFF, WILLIS, WILKINS ------------------------- The will of my 4th great-grandfather John EADES, SR., filed 4 Jan 1802 at Richmond Co. Courthouse, Augusta, GA, says: "To beloved daughters, Hannah FOALDS, Priscilla JINKINS, Mary WILLIS, Charlotty COBBS, $1.00 each." Rest of estate went to dau. Sarah HUGHES, sons John EADES, JR. [my ancestor] and Daniel EADES, and "my good friend Dolly HUFF". My notes say: "Hannah married a FOALDS before 1800 (her father's will). Have heard he was 'John'. A Mary FOALDS, a John FOALDS and a W. WILKINS signed as witnesses to her father's will, filed 4 Jan 1802, at Richmond Co. Courthouse in Augusta, Georgia." Also, "in Columbia Co. in 1793, a Barney HUFF was in Capt. Wm. WILKINS' Militia Co., along with John EADES, JR., Wm. HUGHES, Geo. FOLDS, JR., Richard FOLDS, Abraham COBB and Daniel COBB." I would be grateful for any info (and sources) on the FOALDS/FOLDS family, et al. Meanwhile, I will starting looking in Jasper Co., GA. Thanks for the lead! Anne Connell in FL
Here's a list of very recent changes or uploads to rootsweb for GA - the first few concern Columbia County. Uploaded/changed file list http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/columbia/history/bentonnm.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/columbia/history/dranestp.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/columbia/history/revillec.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/columbia/history/waltonrm.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/franklin/obits/lcpowers.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/franklin/obits/wgbanks.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/harris/military/civilwar/pensions/mu rrah.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/hart/obits/hfsayer.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/hart/obits/sosayer.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/taliaferro/cemeteries/catholic.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/thomas/history/thomindx.txt Carol Don't let another child be hurt by ignorance, educate yourself about Tourette Syndrome. www.tsa-usa.org --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.226 / Virus Database: 108 - Release Date: 1/5/01
Funny, Anne. <grin> Thank your hubby for calling Ed Collier there. That was so sweet. I am a little disappointed, but I guess I will find that line through Gardner Collier someday. It did sound like a promising lead, though. It is like losing a whole line of cousins somewhere. Hey, they could be living here, and I would not even know it! Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Connell" <rconn@magicnet.net> To: <GACOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [GACOLUMB] Columbia/Richmond County question > "Put your little foot, put your little foot, ......." <grin> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bruce Cardner <BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net> > > > > Dorothy, > > Thanks for the response about the two. I also need to know if Richmond was > > originally known as St. Paul's Parish. I am asking all these questions > > trying to figure why various records indicate different places, but nobody > > moved. <grin> > > Sydney Cardner > > > > > > ==== GACOLUMB Mailing List ==== > Suggestions or comments? Contact me at ListAdmin@whale-mail.com > >
"Put your little foot, put your little foot, ......." <grin> ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Cardner <BruceCardner@worldnet.att.net> > Dorothy, > Thanks for the response about the two. I also need to know if Richmond was > originally known as St. Paul's Parish. I am asking all these questions > trying to figure why various records indicate different places, but nobody > moved. <grin> > Sydney Cardner >
Posted on: Columbia Co. Ga Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Columbia/541 Surname: STONE, AVERA, AVERY ------------------------- For Columbia (or any) county, look at any existing census records before and after 1791. The headings often said "Captain so-and-so's District", and their signatures would appear in the margin or at the bottom.
Leo, Thanks for the link. I sent it on to a couple of other Germany researchers whose line went westward. I do not remember seeing that person's research before, not do they, so it was a find. Sydney Cardner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leo Leonard" <platicando@peachnet.campuscwix.net> To: <GACOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 9:40 AM Subject: [GACOLUMB] Germany Surname > Germany Researchers: > > If you have not already done so, you may wish to visit > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~msnewton/germany.html > > There appears to be much information concerning Columbia Co., GA Germanys > there. > > Good hunting, > Leo Leonard > > > > > ==== GACOLUMB Mailing List ==== > Suggestions or comments? Contact me at ListAdmin@whale-mail.com > >
Dorothy, Thanks for the response about the two. I also need to know if Richmond was originally known as St. Paul's Parish. I am asking all these questions trying to figure why various records indicate different places, but nobody moved. <grin> Sydney Cardner