1840 United States
Federal Census about M
Watson
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
1840 Census East Baton Rouge Parish
Settlement of Daniel Eades Estate
Settlement of Daniel
Eades Estate
The
following is from the records of Eaast Feliciana Parish, LA.
Co B "A" pg 201
Sept
6th 1826
State of Louisiana
Parish of East Felilciana Be it remembered that on this day of
the date hereof
Before me Thomas A. Scott, Judge of the
Parish aforesaid and
Exofficio Notary Public in and for the
same, personally came
and appeared Charity Eades, widow of the
late Daniel Eads dec.
of the one part, and Penelope Watson
Daughter of the late
Daniel Eads dec. of the second part,
aided and asisted by her
husband Michael Watson, and the said
parties for the purpose
of efficting an amicable solution of the
Estate of the Late
Daniel Eads dec. & hereinafter
mentioned agrees as follows,
_______, the said Charity Eads agrees and
doth herein and
hereby freely and fully give, grant, and
relinquish to the
said Penelope Watson her heirs and
asigns, all the right, ____
interest and claim in and to the
following discribed ___
and personal property, of the Said Estate
of the Said
Daniel Eads dec. ______
Negro man John supposed to be worth four
hundred dollars 400
Negro woman Viney worth four hundred
dollars 400
Negro boy Joe worth two hundred
dollars 200
Negro boy Ben worth one hundred and
seventy five dollars 175
Negro boy Jim worth one hundred and
seventy five dollars 175
Negro woman Frankey worth four hundred
dollars 400
Negro boy Jerry worth four hundred
dollars 400
Negro girl Jes__ima worth three hundred
dollars 300
Negro boy Shepard worth three hundred
dollars 300
Negro girl Disda worth one hundred and
seventy five dollars 175
Negro girl Trucilla worth one hundred and
fifty dollars 150
Negro girl Sarah worth one hundred
dollars 100
Negro man Peter worth three hundred
dollars 300
Negro girl Rachel worth two hundred
twenty five dollars 225
Negro girl Sas__incy worth two hundred
dollars 200
Negro man Jack worth five hundred
dollars 500
Negro man Perkins worth five hundred
dollars 500
One stud horse worth one hundred and
fifty dollars 150
One gray horse worth one hundred and
fifty dollars 150
One yoke of no horned oxen worth forty
five dollars 45
One yoke of horned oxen worth fifty
dollars 50
One carriage worth sixty dollars 60
One ___ of blacksmiths tools worth sixty
five dollars 60
One tract of land lying in the Amit
_____ proposed to
contain six hundred and forty acres worth
six hundred dollars 600
Three beds and furnature
Thirteen head of stock cattle and twenty
head of sheep
and the said Prisilla Watson assisted by
her husband
Michael Watson as aforesaid, for the
purpose aforesaid
agrees, and doth herein and hereby freely
Copy ends here
Her name is given as "Prisilla"
in the last paragraph.
It was clearly written this way, either
the court clerk
made an error, or possibly her middle
name was "Prisilla",
she had an aunt by this name.
Penelope & Michael's Marriage 8 July 1820
Marriage
Contract Penelope Eades and Michael Watson
State of Louisiana
Parish of Feliciana
Know all men by these presents that
___
Michael Watson & Daniel Eades are
held & firmly bound unto
Wm Collins & his successors &
asigns in the full sum of five
Hunderd dollars lawfull money of the
United States to which
payment will & truly to be made we
bind ourselves our heirs
& asigns. Signed by us this 8th day of July 1820 - Now
the
condition of this above obligation is
such that whereas the
said Michael Watson has this day obtained
from the Judge of
the Parish aforesaid a licence to
celebrate a marriage
between him the said Michael Watson and
Penelope Eades.
Now if there exists no legal impediment
to the celebration
of said marriage then this obligation to
be void Otherwise
to _____ in full force & virtue.
W. Collins Michael
Watson
Daniel Eades made his
mark
The Marriage contract above is from the
records of
West Feliciana Parish, LA...I have a copy
of the original.
Tom Scott May 31, 1992
Sunday, June 30, 2013
My Library
My
Library: Books and websites on the Creek
Nation
It
might be helpful to list some of my sources and references.
Black,
White, and Indian
By
Claudio Saunt 2005 Oxford University
Press
This
was the first book I found describing Daniel Eades living in Halibee as Saucy
Jack.
http://csaunt.myweb.uga.edu/
A
History of the Indians of the United States
By
Angie Debo 1970 University of Oklahoma
Press
The
Road to Disappearance
A
History of the Creek Indians
By
Angie Debo 1941 University of Oklahoma Press
The
Rise of The Poarch Band of Creek Indians
By
Lou Vickery with Steve Travis
2009 Upword Press
McGillivray
of the Creeks
By
John Walton Caughey
1938
University of Oklahoma Press
Milford’s
Memoir
By
Louis LeClerc de Milford
Copyright
200 by The Narrative Press
Written
by Millford around 1800, after he had returned to France. The purpose of the
memoir was to convince Napoleon Bonaparte’s government to enter into a treaty
with the Creek Nation with Milford as the recognized representative of the
Creek Nation. Milford had lived 20 years
in the Creek Nation, from 1775 to about 1795, and was married to McGillivray’s
sister.
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