Good Day Mike, I really appreciate your continuing research on the Vaughan family, since it is my own. I am envious of your time and resources. Thanks so much for your continuing efforts. Ed Vaughn www.vaughnfarm.org (The .org really does stand for non-profit!!!) mike hilton wrote: >I think it is very fortunate that Somerset County, Maryland does have such extensive records including deeds, patents, surveys, wills and a number of 17th century birth records such as those recorded in Liber IKL. I think John is right that we should be thankful for what we do have. > >For example, from the surving records on Mdlandrec.net and what I have looked at on the Maryland State Archives Online, the Nabb research center as well as published abstracts available at the Shreve Memorial Library in Shreveport, La and some records previously ordered from the Maryland State Archives, makes me very thankful. There are still things I have to investigate. > >As an example, I've been working on an Vaughan family and have utilized every available resource to determine who/what/when where... > >William Vaughan born Ca. 1648/50 possibly in England or possibly in Virginia, immigrated in 1671 to Somerset Co. Md, there was a William Vaughan living in Northampton Co. Va who was on the Taxables List for 1674, so I don't think they are the same person. This William Vaughan married a Margaret ________, born Ca. 1656/65 probably about 1683/4 and the birth of their oldest son, William Vaughan was recorded in 1686. William Vaughan Sr, bound over his son William Vaughan at the age of 12 in 1698 along with his younger brother Leonard Vaughan and sister Elizabeth. {I've ordered the orginal record from the State Archives] and the name Leonard gives me a clue... > >Leonard Jones in the abstract of his Will, names a Mary Vahan, so I am thinking it might be possible that was Marg. for his daughter Margaret, because when he immigrated from Virginia in 1667, he came with his wife Joane, daughter Margaret & other family members. This strongly suggests Margaret Jones, married William Vaughan. I have only examined the abstract of the will and am still waiting for the Microfilm to see what the original will or rather the recorded copy of the will says. > > >I know that the records are sometimes incomplete even for Somerset Co. but they are much more complete than many other areas including records in Virginia, the Carolinas & Louisiana my native state. There are some counties in Virginia for example, that were created as early as 1634 with next to nothing prior to 1865, in Washington Parish, La the courthouse was burned in 1897 by a preacher who hoped if the records were destroyed his son would not hang, the courthouse in Jackson Parish, La was dynamited in 1880 so there are very few records prior to that time and while doing research on my wife's maternal family, I discovered there were simply no records prior to 1912 due to a courthouse fire. Believe me it is much harder to reconstruct a family tree when there are almost no records!!! > >Mike Hilton> To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:19:50 -0500> From: johnlyon0@cs.com> Subject: Re: [LDR] Headrights, patents and deeds> > >>From: tarantulac@aol.com> > > >>I have transcribed a deed from 1707 which lists within it the persons who were > >"transported" by the person(s) who received a patent/grant of land.? I learned > >the following facts about these transportations <snip>> ____________________> > Many early deeds include title histories back to the original grant (patent). But it’s unusual to see that title history detailing the original basis of rights for the patent, down to the individual headrights. Just the date of patent – and to whom – was the norm. That you see this stuff here is a clerical quirk. The deed-entering clerk in 1707 was at the courthouse at Dividing Creek, not on the banks of the Nanticoke. What he was copying from, though, was the patent entries which had been made some 42 years before at the then-Provincial! capital in St. Mary’s City, where the Land Office kept its books, and where all headright claims were processed (and later verified) by the Calvert bureaucrats.> > Your deed, at So Deeds CD:279, relates to the great 1000 acre William Stevens residence plantation on the Pocomoke known as REHOBOTH. This is described in MD Patents 9:219 and 9:220, surveyed for Stevens on 18 Jul 1665 and patented for him on 20 Feb 1665/6. It became the site of the ancient Rehoboth Town. > > Stevens was an extremely important early leader of Somerset. See Torrence. This particular patent is not only his first, but central to his many holdings and busy doings until his death in 1687. In his LW&T (See20MD Wills 4:296 and So Wills EB5:171) he bequeathed 200 ac of REHOBOTH to Edmond Howard and William Stevens Howard, the basis of their sale to Schoolfield in your deed.> > Stevens’ original basis of rights is expressed in the original (and duplicated in your deed), as being via a transport warrant t! o "William Stevens for himself, Elizabeth Stevens his wife, Th! omas Phi llips and Robert Moore" (200 ac)> > > > + 250 ac by assignment from Richard Whitty for transport of Richard White et ux. Elizabeth White, Ann Fisher, George Phebus and Patience Locker > > + 550 ac by assignment of Ann Hack, widow, for transport of Jacob Cloyse, William Clarke, Thomas Dab, John Seaman, William Seaman, Simon Carpe, Elizabeth Lent, Paul Sereeke, Morgan Abraham, James Fereby and Ann German.> > What this means is that Stevens held four headrights for his own entry and that of his wife and the two others, adding to 200 ac. One might guess that Phillips and Moore were employees or "servants" of Stevens.> > Stevens, wanting a bigger plantation, bought the remainder of the required rights from Whitty and the widow Ann Hack, each of whom held headrights for the named parties. These may have been almost anyone – extended family, "servants" or others. A search in warrant records might expose more on each. Richard Whitty was an early settler along the Wicomico River, and! Ann Hack held a large plantation in Monie. Among the transportees, George Phebus became an ancient land-holding resident of Annemessex. Some of the other names are20familiar, but I haven’t correlated them specifically with individuals who may appear in other Somerset records. Some are not recognizable, and may have actually settled elsewhere in Maryland. The transcriptions of some of these names is dicey, and is one of the uncertainties associated with accurate tabulations of identity, as Carson Gibb discusses in his introduction. Each represents a little research project on its own. To learn more, one has to delve into the warrant records (as Carson did, using both the warrant and patent series), and wherever else that leads.> > Again, as I’ve suggested often here, the best way to become better acquainted with the entire process of warranting, surveying and patenting in the early days is to go to John Kilty’s "Land Holder’s Assistant", the 1808 Bible on these matters, whi! ch is at the MSA Web site, as Volume 73 of the Archives of Mar! yland On -Line.> > John> > > > > ________________________________________________________________________> Email message sent from CompuServe - visit us today at http://www.cs.com> ***************************************> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING?> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ:> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >_________________________________________________________________ >Windows Live™: E-mail. 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