Here is the description of the only plat listed at the Virtual Vault for Stephen Murray: State of Georgia Stephen Murrays Wart. Dated July 5th 1790 150 acres Surveyed the 11th of July 1790 For the D Stephen Murray (who resides in this State) One Hundred & fifty acres of Land in Burke County near Boggy Gut. Soside(?) of Brier. Bound to the North by D. Stephen Murray & Edward Cato to the South by Ogelbee to the SEt by Noah Whidon & Jane Tweedy and to the No Et by John Thompson & Anderson Windsor. Certified Isaac Terry (or Perry?) AS (S or what?) There are some other Murray plats at the website - Dempsey, Timothy, and William. So, there is a John Thompson on this 1790 deed. Is he the "S Thompsons" from the 1796 Reubin Thompson deed? In the upper left corner of the Reubin Thompson deed there is an abbreviation that looks like it could be "Boggy Gut". If so, from comparing the deeds, in 1790 Stephen Murray and John Thompson do not appear to be adjacent landowners. Edward Cato and Anderson Winsdor are between them. But, they could have sold their land to either Thompson or Murray and moved on by 1796. Bo and Yvonne, what do you think? Carol

I agree, Carol, it does look like the upper left corner of Reubin Thompson's warrant probably says Boggy Gut Cr. In my opinion Reubin's warrant would have said John Thompson, or Jno. Thompson if it was referring to him. That little superscript after the S in S Thompson has to be taken into account, and I really think that the clerk wrote "Said Thompson" and was therefore referring to Reubin Thompson, for whom the warrant was written. If I'm right about this, you can't help but wonder how much more trouble was it to write out Reubin instead of Said? It would have saved us all this speculation! Yvonne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol Miller Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [GAEMANUE] Stephen Murray's land Here is the description of the only plat listed at the Virtual Vault for Stephen Murray: State of Georgia Stephen Murrays Wart. Dated July 5th 1790 150 acres Surveyed the 11th of July 1790 For the D Stephen Murray (who resides in this State) One Hundred & fifty acres of Land in Burke County near Boggy Gut. Soside(?) of Brier. Bound to the North by D. Stephen Murray & Edward Cato to the South by Ogelbee to the SEt by Noah Whidon & Jane Tweedy and to the No Et by John Thompson & Anderson Windsor. Certified Isaac Terry (or Perry?) AS (S or what?) There are some other Murray plats at the website - Dempsey, Timothy, and William. So, there is a John Thompson on this 1790 deed. Is he the "S Thompsons" from the 1796 Reubin Thompson deed? In the upper left corner of the Reubin Thompson deed there is an abbreviation that looks like it could be "Boggy Gut". If so, from comparing the deeds, in 1790 Stephen Murray and John Thompson do not appear to be adjacent landowners. Edward Cato and Anderson Winsdor are between them. But, they could have sold their land to either Thompson or Murray and moved on by 1796. Bo and Yvonne, what do you think? Carol Emanuel County GaGenWeb http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yvonne, Well there is the other deed, the one for John Thompson's land, that says his land is near Rubin Thompson's land. Why would it bother saying that if they weren't connected? You might be right about the reference to Reubin's plat though.Usually though I have noticed that they did write out the landowner's name if he also owned adjacent plats. Maybe there are some other plats that might help. It isn't easy digging through the archives and it especially isn't easy interpreting the plats! Carol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yvonne Scott Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GAEMANUE] Stephen Murray's land I agree, Carol, it does look like the upper left corner of Reubin Thompson's warrant probably says Boggy Gut Cr. In my opinion Reubin's warrant would have said John Thompson, or Jno. Thompson if it was referring to him. That little superscript after the S in S Thompson has to be taken into account, and I really think that the clerk wrote "Said Thompson" and was therefore referring to Reubin Thompson, for whom the warrant was written. If I'm right about this, you can't help but wonder how much more trouble was it to write out Reubin instead of Said? It would have saved us all this speculation! Yvonne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol Miller Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [GAEMANUE] Stephen Murray's land Here is the description of the only plat listed at the Virtual Vault for Stephen Murray: State of Georgia Stephen Murrays Wart. Dated July 5th 1790 150 acres Surveyed the 11th of July 1790 For the D Stephen Murray (who resides in this State) One Hundred & fifty acres of Land in Burke County near Boggy Gut. Soside(?) of Brier. Bound to the North by D. Stephen Murray & Edward Cato to the South by Ogelbee to the SEt by Noah Whidon & Jane Tweedy and to the No Et by John Thompson & Anderson Windsor. Certified Isaac Terry (or Perry?) AS (S or what?) There are some other Murray plats at the website - Dempsey, Timothy, and William. So, there is a John Thompson on this 1790 deed. Is he the "S Thompsons" from the 1796 Reubin Thompson deed? In the upper left corner of the Reubin Thompson deed there is an abbreviation that looks like it could be "Boggy Gut". If so, from comparing the deeds, in 1790 Stephen Murray and John Thompson do not appear to be adjacent landowners. Edward Cato and Anderson Winsdor are between them. But, they could have sold their land to either Thompson or Murray and moved on by 1796. Bo and Yvonne, what do you think? Carol Emanuel County GaGenWeb http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Emanuel County GaGenWeb http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message