This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McKissick, negro woman slave, Dougherty, Skidmore Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1822 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 -4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest Fremont county pioneers. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes. 1.--1811.--Born in 1811, in North Carolina; came to this county in 1840. Elected justice of the peace in 1841. Removed to California in 1854.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 664. 2.--1832: Jacob McKissick received $137.50 for services at the Upper Missouri Agency (Nov. 1, 1832 - Sept. 30, 1833) for attending to public horses, etc.--From the General Abstract of John Dougherty, U.S. Indian Agent for the Upper Missouri, Oct. 1, 1832 - Sept. 30, 1833. Exec. Doc. #490, First Session of the 23rd Congress. 3.--1841: Jacob McKissick, brother of Cornelius, came in 1841.--Cowden 4.--Kept a negro woman and several of her children as slaves on his calim during time this area was claimed by Missouri.--Mills and Fremont history, section 2, page 8. 5.--1845: Jacob McKissick was one of the first grand jurors for Atchison county, MO, Sept. 1845.--Hist. of Holt and Atchison counties, page __?__. 6.--1850: ORDERED to serve as grand juror at the first District Court.--Minutes, Feb. 4, 1850. 7.--1850: Land entry made at Fairfield, Iowa, on April 1, 1850 by Jacob McKissick for the northwest quarter of section 20 township 67 range 41. 8.--1850: Federal Census, FRemont county, Iowa Jacob McKissick....40....b. Penn. M.K. Skidmore.......36........Ind Elizabeth................40.......NY Sarah E..................11.......ILL Nancy.....................5........ILL Mahalia...................2........MO 9.--1850: Appointed as judge of election in Franklin township.--Minutes, July 1, 1850. 10.--1853: Land entry by Jacob McKissick, made at Council Bluffs on July 11, 1853 for the southeast quarter of section 20 township 67 range 41.--Courthouse record. 11.--1853: ORDERED to serve as grand juror until August. 1, 1853.--Greenwood, Sept. 2, 1852.