Lucy A. Smith

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1930, Las Palomas, Sierra Co, New Mexico

Nathan married Mrs. Della (..) Smith in 1899. Della was born in 1876 in Kansas; died after 1830 in of, Las Palomas, Sierra Co, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 13 Jul 1870, Hillebrandt Bayou, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 17 Jun 1880, Hardin Co (District 29), Texas
• Census: 1900, Dona Ana, New Mexico Territory

Notes:

1880 census - p 180

Arthur Magill was the chief engineer aboard the T. J. Smith, a Neches River mail packet built in 1857 at Bevilport, Jasper County, and owned by Capt. Henry Clay Smith of Orange. In 1858, while riding the 100-foot steamer to Sabine, Henry R. Green, a Beaumont correspondent of Galveston Weekly News, wrote that the T. J. Smith ran "like lightning with a thunderbolt after it."5 Green also wrote that "Magill is scientific in his line, very careful, and experienced." Nevertheless, the engineer was killed on November 2, 1859, when the vessel's boiler exploded. The T. J. Smith was later repaired and in 1862 was confiscated by the Confederate States government when its owner, H. C. Smith, defected to the Federal forces. Probate records reveal that Kate Magill soon sued Capt. Smith to collect her dead husband's wages. This was her first encounter in court with the man she would grow to loathe.6
(snip)


On September 8, 1863, the war returned to Sabine Pass in full measure. Unknown to Kate at the time, her old adversary, Capt. Henry Clay Smith was the Confederate defector to the North who piloted the ill-fated U. S. gunboat Sachem up the Louisiana channel. The gunboat was one of two which soon bowed to the gunners of Fort Griffin, and ironically, Capt. Smith was the only one aboard who escaped.14

end notes:
5 "Letter from Hal," Galveston WEEKLY NEWS, Sept. 12, 1858, as reprinted in "Extracts from W. T. Block (ed.) "The Writings of Henry R. Green," TEXAS GULF HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, X (Nov., 1975), p. 67.
6 File 110, Estate of Arthur McGill, Probate Records, Jefferson County Archives.
14 "Memoirs of Lt. Joseph Chasteen," Confederate Veterans Column, Galveston DAILY NEWS, Sept. 3, 1899.

Catherine-Magill-Dorman-Confed-Herone-Sabine-Pass.htm
http://www.texasescapes.com/WTBlock/Catherine-Magill-Dorman-Confederate-Heroine-of-Sabine-Pass-Texas.htm

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In 1859, northbound travelers could utilize a weekly water and land connection to reach San Augustine. The mail packets Mary Falvey and T. f. Smith carried Sabine and Beaumont passengers to Wiess Bluff, a Jasper County river port sixteen miles north of Beaumont, where Taylor?s stage route from San Augustine ended.
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The mail packet T. J. Smith, built at Town Bluff in 1857, belonged to Henry Clay Smith and Henry B. Force of Orange. The steamer carried mail and cotton on the Neches until the Civil War began. When Captain Smith defected to the Union navy in 1862, his steamboat was confiscated by the Confederates and was being used to ferry troops on the Calcasieu River in 1863.118

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txjeffer/history/Block/Jefferson_County_History/Chapter07.htm

JeffCo-History-Ch-07-Block(transportation).htm

Census:



1870 13 July
Hillebrandt Bayou, Beaumont, Texas

residence 324
Smith, Clay 1831 Indiana
Rachel 32 Louisiana
Muletta 7 1863 Lousiana
Ann 1865 Louisiana
Lucinda 3 1867 Texas
Mary 5/12 1870 (Feb) Texas

residence 325
Martha (Martha Jane Hart) Smith 68 1802 Ohio
Dalem? (Solon James) Smith 45 1824 Indiana farmer
Jane Smith 40 1830 Louisiana
Martha Smith 19 1851 Louisiana
Nay Smith 17 1853 Louisiana
Rufus Smith 14 1856 Louisiana
Maya (Maja Argen) Smith 12 1858 Texas (m Geo willis stockholm)
Elector Smith 10 1860 Texas
Margret Smith 8 1862 Texas
Atwood Smith 6 1864 Texas
Merta Smith 3 1867 Texas
Nathan Smith 9/12 (Nov) 1869 Texas

Census:
H. C. Smith 49 1831 farmer Indiana Vermont Ohio
Rachel E. Smith 37 11843 TX ENG LA
Myrtella Smith 17 1863
Ann E. Smith 15 1865
Lula L. Smith 13 1867
Mary A. Smith 10 1870
Adair E. Smith 8 1872
Henry C. Smith 7 1873
Lilly M. Smith 5 1875
Nathan C. Smith 1 1879
Walter Singleterry 38 1842 div boarder lumbermanSC SC SC


Census:
residence 208/222, Roberts, Lucy, head, May 1871, age 29,
widowed, one child, one living, TX IN TX
Robert, son, May 1891 age 9, NM TX TX
Smith, Henry, father, Feb 1840, age 60, widowed,
IN, VT,OH

Henry married Rachel E. Court on 18 Mar 1860 in Orange Co, Texas. Rachel (daughter of Thomas* Court, (immigrant) and Ann* Johnson) was born on 31 Jan 1837 in Louisiana; died in 1892 in Los Cruses, Dona Ana, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 25 Oct 1850, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

At age 13, Rachel was living with Benjamin and Rachel Johnson (1850 census).

1860 Orange Co, Tx census:
H.C. Smith 29 Steamboatman 3000 Indiana
Rachel 23 Housewife Louisiana
Henry (illeg)22 laborer New York
John Morgan 23 carpenter Texas

"She married Henry Clay Smith of Orange, a Unionist in the Civil War, and they had 10 children. They moved to Las Cruces, NM where Rachel died in 1892." Debbie Spurgeron

Census:
res 210 Jacob H Garner 36 LA
Matilda (Hayes) Garner 22 LA
Anna Garner 10 1840 TX
Martha Ann Garner 8 1842 TX
Leonard Garner 3 1947 TX
Mary Ann Garner 6 1844 TX
Sally Ann Garner 0 1850 TX
Sarah Ann Court 16 1834 TX Sarah and Matilda 1st cousins. Their mothers were sisters. Sarah and Rachel were sisters.

res 208
Johnson Berry 35 1815 LA
Rachel 33 1817 LA
Wesley 10 1840 TX
Bradley 9 1841 TX
John 7 1843 TX
Uriah 4 1846 TX
Joseph 2 1848 TX
Berry Amin 1 1849 TX
Court, Rachel 13 1813 niece, her mother was Berry's sister.

Notes:

Married:
Name: Rachel E. Court
Marriage Date: 18 Mar 1860

Spouse: H. C. Smith

Marriage County: Orange
Marriage State: Texas

Source: Texas Marriages, 1814-1909

Nathan married Martha Jane Benham about 1830. Martha was born about 1810 in Lebanon, Ohio; died after 1831 in of, Vincennes, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1826, "Delas," sailed from Liverpool, England to New Orleans
• Residence: Abt 1831, Lavaca Bay region, Texas
• Residence: 1832, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Residence: Between 1836 and 1845, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas; Republic of Texas
• Property: 13 Apr 1838, Palo Pinto Co, Texas
• Property: Bef 1 May 1838, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

Moved to Texas in 1829 according to 1850 Jefferson Co, Census.

Edmond Speer - Jul 19, 2001 View | Viewers | Reply to this item
I just returned from a trip to North Texas where Kittie and I made a jog over to the head waters of the Palo Pinto river, where, as I take it , Thomas Courts was given a section of land by the Texas government somewhere around 1838. He then sold it shortly after his death, around 1852. Acording to historical markers, Anglo settlers did not arrive untill around the 1850s. When we get upstairs some day we are going to have to talk to him about this, because it is a beautiful place. There is a large power plant setting at the head of the river, and some very nice homes thru that area. The sceanery was great and peaceful.
Judy Armstrong had a plat of the exact location of this property. I will try to obtain a copy of it from her husband or sister next time I get to Beaumont.

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Birth estimated by Kirby's account that his father said Thomas was an "old man" when he drowned. A conflicting story of his drowning is that rather than returning to England for possessions, he had a boat that he hauled timber with and subsequently drowned in Galveston Bay. According to this account, he and James Madison and his other sons were raftsmen and hauled timber a good portion of their lives. Henry Clifton, a grandson, hauled timber till he was 76 years old. James Cole, son of Henry, also worked timber until 1932 when the industry shut down.
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(notes of Kirby Courts:)
These facts are known about Thomas Court. He was in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, in 1828; a marriage certificate for he and Anna Johnson are recorded.
Thomas and Anna came to Texas in 1828 or 1829; he is listed in the Book "1830 Citizens of Texas" by Gifford White. This book was a census of the 6,500 pre-Revolutionary Texans. Thomas was the 162nd applicant for a land grant from Steven Ftin in 1829. It was granted in 1838. The grant was for one league 4,428.4 acres plus 177.1 acres in Jefferson County, Texas. "1840 Citizens of Texas Land Grants Vol 3."
The Jefferson Co Clerk's Report for 1838 lists Thomas Court as a pioneer in Jefferson Co. Thomas never shows up on a census report taken in 1840 or 1850. His last child, Paul Phelan, was born in March 1846. Thomas probably died before thsus of 1850. This assumption is made due to Anna being wed to Enos Burrows in October 1851 (Jefferson Co Marriage Book Pg 6).
Where did Thomas Court come from? In the census of Colonial America, they list: John Court, Maryland Colony in 1642; John Court, Dobbs Co, North Carolina in 1769; M. Court, Somerset Co, New Jersey in 1778; W. Court, Somerset Co, New Jern 1780. Could he be a soldier of the English Military that fought against Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812? This battle was fought two weeks after England had surrendered to the U.S. The soldiers were released after this battle. Did he stay in America?
In going through the census reports for the U.S., I have found hundreds of Court and Courts listed in every state of the Union. They are listed in all possessions of the British Empire. At this point I can go no further than I have with s Court. My gut feeling is he was from the Eastern part of the U.S.
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"A History of Jefferson County, Texas from Wilderness to Reconstruction" by
W.T. Block ( a SIGNED copy, no less!), 1976

pg 22 -
After John McGaffey moved to Sabine Pass in 1832, he was joined in the same year by Thomas Courts, an Englishman, who had abandoned the Lavaca Bay region because of hostile Indians.55 In 1835, McGaffey applied for a land grant at Sabine, but, shortly after Dr. John A. Veatch completed the league's survey in November, 1835, the Nacogdoches land office closed. There is no record of other settlers at Sabine Pass until Benjamin Johnson and Jacob H. Garner, McGaffey's brothers-in-law, moved there in April 1838.56
"http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txjeffer/history/Block/Jefferson_County_History/Chapter05.htm

Has a note that this came from "History of the Thomas Courts Family, Port Arthur News, undated clipping, circa 1938, copy owned by WT Block

pg 25 - "In her 'Story of Beaumont', Florence Stratton stated that Captain George W. Hargraves commanded a militia company of sixty-two men at Beaumont in August, 1835, and was en route to San Jacinto with twenty-one
men when the battle was fought."
A list of the men follows with the last on the list being Jim Courts...in a footnote, WTB states that some members on the list may have been too young...census records and tombstones indicate that Courts was born in 1829...

pg 96 - "The greater concentration of Germans settled ib mid-Jefferson County, and by 1860, comprised one-half of the one hundred persons residing at Smith's Bluff and Grigsby's Bluff, where a post office was established
in 1859." "The German population at Grigsby's Bluff included William, Charles, and George Christian Gentz..."
from: Julia Brittain - judyb@pdq.net (She is a descendent of McGaffey)
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[23 June 1842]

Republic of Texas
County of Jefferson

Know all men by these presents that I Thomas
Court, for and in consideration of the sum of
one hundred and fifty Dollars to me in hand
paid by Niles F. Smith the [??] of which is hereby
acknowledged here this day. Granted, Bargained, sold
and Conveyed and by these presents doth grant, bargain
sell and convey unto the said Niles F. Smith his heirs
and assigns forever the following described piece
or parcel of land situated in Jefferson County --
To Wit -- One Labor of Land surveyed off of my
head right League + Labor -- West am adjoining the
survey of one League of land made for John McGaffey
on the Sabine Pass said Labor of land is the
same surveyed by Corday sometime last November or
December [??] said Thos. Courts --

To have and to hold said labor of land to him the said Niles F. Smith, his heirs and assigns with all the rights and
... And the said Court will
warrant and defined the said labor of
land to him the said Niles F. Smith, his heirs and
assigns forever.

In testiment to which I
have herewith set my hand +
seal this 23 dy of June 18[42]

Witnesses -- Thomas Court

Charles C. Burch
[James] Smith

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[9 June 1851]

The State of Texas
County of Jefferson
Before me J. W. Hutchings a
Notary Public in aforesaid
county and State this day personally appeared Charles
C. Burch, a subscribing witness to the within + forgoing
deed and being by me duly sworn, deposes + says that he
saw Thomas Court sign the same + heard him acknowl.
edge it to be his act + deed for the purposes
and considerations therein stated.
In Testimony ...
hereunto ...
+ appeared this witness
the seal of my office at
Sabine Pass this 9th dy of
June A.D. 1851
J. H. Hutchings
Notary Public

===========================
Notice

Is hereby given that on this 15th day of
June A.D. 1854 -- William Lewis has filed
his application for Letters of Administration
upon the Estate of Thomas Court
deceased. Sue Pilsow having objections
will file the same in accordance with law.

Beaumont June 15th A.D. 1854

J.K. Robertson clerk county court
Jefferson County
--------------------------------
[15 July 1854]

I do solomnly swear that Thomas
Court Sr. died without leaving any
lawful will for us I know or
believe and that I will andd
truly perform all the duties of
administration of the said Thomas
Court, Deceased.
William Lewis
--------------------------------
[undated]

To the Hon. Chief Justice
Your petitioner William Lewis at the request
of Some of the ... of the Estate of Thomas Sr. Court
applies for letters of administration on the Estate
said Thomas Court Sr. who died in Jefferson County
in debt and a resident citizen of said county.
William Lewis
Applicant
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[ca. Summer 1855]

Will be sold at Public Auction at the Court House
door at Beaumont Jefferson County on the first
Tuesday of September A.D. 1855 in pursuance of an
order of the Probate Court of said county so much
of the Headright League of Land of Thomas Court
belonging to the Estate of Thomas Court deceased.
Situated in McClennon County in the Palo Pinto river
as will be sufficient to make five hundred dollars.
Reference is had to the Patent now on file in the
County Clerk's Office for a more particular description
of said Lands -- Terms of Sale Twelve Months Credit

William Lewis, admin.
of Thomas Court deceased
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Administration of Thomas P. Courts

To Wm Armstrong Sr.
to locating surveying one League of Land the
Headright of Thos. Court 85.00
for recording field notes 3.00
fees paid on patent 12.60
Total: 100.60

Pay the above account to James Armstrong or
D. J. Otho Millard
Wm Armstrong


State of Texas
Jefferson County
Personally came
before me the undersigned Justice of the
Peace, James Armstrong attorney for Willi-
am Armstrong who after being sworn
according to law, says under oath that
this claim is just and that all legal
offsets, payments and credits known to
the applicant have been allowed, and
signed his name.
James Armstrong

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 13th day of July A.D. 1855
John K. Robertson
Justice of peace
J.C.
______________________________
[28 Apr 1857]

Notice

Is hereby given that on this 28th day of April A.D.
1857, Niles F. Smith has filed his application
for Letters of Administration on the Estate of
Thomas Court, Deceased. Any person having
objections will file the Same within two days in
accordance with law.

Beaumont April 28th A.D. 1857

J.K. Robertson clerk county court
Jefferson County
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[8 September 1857]
To the Sherrif of Said County, Greeting.
Whereas the County Court for said Conuty
at the August ... thereof on the 31st day of ...
Month made and entered of record its order
in the following words, viz--

Matter of Est. of
Ths. Court Dec'd Est.
Wm. Lewis Adm. Ordered by the Court that the
Administrator in this Matter
come forward and exhibit to this court the
condition of the Estate of the Said decedent.
Therefore you are hereby commanded to
notify the Said Administrator viz William Lewis
If he be found in your county that he is hereby
required to be and appear before the said court
to be holden in for said county at the court
house in the town of Beaumont on the last
Monday the 28th day of September A.D. 1857
there to comply with the foregoing order.
Herein fail not +c.
In testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand affix my seal of office
... this wnd this 8th day of
September A.D. 1857
[G.H.O. Bozan] Clerk
Clerk Jeff.Co.
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Timeline
1810: - Anna Johnson born in LA
1828:Aug 19 -Thomas Court marries Anna Johnson
1829 - Thomas Court comes to Texas
1828-30 - James Madison Court is born
1834:Feb 14 - Sarah Ann Court is born
1837:Jan 31 - Rachel Court is born
1838:Apr 13 - certificate 162 entitles Thomas Court to land
1840:Dec 24 - Lucritia Debethia Court is born
1840:Sep 21 - Courts register brands:
Thomas (the Englishman?)
James (if son, aged 11. Is that normal? Or is this someone else??)
John
(a Sarah EB and Rachel are listed just above with some Clarks)
1842:Jun 23 - Thomas Court sells one labor of land to Niles F. Smith for $150
1844 - Paul Phelan Court is born
1848:Jul 21 - James Courts registers brand -- a different one
1850 - James marries Julia Ann Sparks. Thomas not listed in census.
1851:Mar 12 - land granted to Thomas Court by the State of Texas
1851:Jun 3 - Sarah Court registers a brand - a different one from before
1852:Jun 09 - Charles C Burch swears he saw Thomas Court sign [something]
1852 - Sarah Ann marries Lewis King
1854:Jun 15 - Wm Lewis files app for Letters of Admin on estate of Thos Court
1854:Jul 15 - Wm Lewis swears Thos Court left no will & he (Wm) will carry out admin
1854:Aug 18 - Wm Lewis appointed administrator of Estate of Thos. Court
1855:Jul 13 - Niles F Smith files grievance. Has not been given possession of land bought in '42
1855:Jul 30 - Wm Lewis accepts claim of Niles F Smith. Niles asks payment of $306 be made to Wm Burgett, who apparently represented him. ($150 plus 8% interest over 13 years)
1855:Jul 30 - Wm Lewis asks premission to auction off land to pay $406 debt plus expenses ($306 plus admin costs)
1855:Sep - 1st Tues - Admin Sale on steps of courthouse - enough of land in McClennon Co to raise $500
- Wm Burgett 1388 acres of head right at 35 cents an acre to be divided between him and the heirs
1856:Apr 18 - James Madison Court sells his one-seventh of the land to Wm Burgett
1857:Apr 28 - Niles F Smith files app for Letters of Admin on Thos Court estate
1857:Sep 08 - Wm Lewis called to court to report on Court estate on Monday 28 Sep 1857.
1857:Sep 24 - Sales earned $499.68, paid debts to Niles F Smith and ?Wm Armstrong
1857:Oct 26 - Wm Lewis says all debts paid, some land left in Palo Pinto County
1857:Nov 30 - Court fees of $8.85 paid
1860:Mar 18 - Rachel marries Henry Clay Smith
1861:Sep 20 - TJ Court enlists Co A Spaight's Batallion (Muster Roll)
1861:Oct 01 - TJ Court enlists Co A Spaight's Batallion (Pension Records)
1867:Jun 14 - TJ Court married S.E. in Blanco county, TX
1868:Oct 01 - Julia Ann Court registers a brand
1870:May 23 - H. C. Court registers a brand
1870:Oct 03 - Clifton Courts registers a brand
1873:Oct 20 - Wm G. Courts registers a brand
1888:Sep 01 - Matt Court registers a brand
1898:Mar 16 - Helmer Courts registers a brand
1898:Jun 25 - ?ay Courts registers a brand
1902:May 08 - Emma Courts registers a brand
1908:Nov 25 - TJ Court died in Comanche County
1917:Mar 16 - Widow of TJ Court, S.E., dies in Hasse, TX.

Christened:
Baptism: 5 Jan 1800 St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Thomas Court - Son of Thomas Court & Ellen
Abode: Blackburn
Register: Baptisms 1792 - 1812, Page 128, Entry 12
Source: Film 1278804
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Blackburn/Blackburn-Central/stmary/baptisms_1800.html


http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Blackburn/Blackburn-Central/stmary/index.html

Baptisms at the church of St Mary the Virgin
in the Parish of Blackburn
Baptism Register: 1792 - 1812
Baptisms for the Year 1800


Immigration:
(from Debbie)
The following is an e-mail from a very nice lady named Diane Francis. I found her on a forum looking for info on her Cort, Ainsworth lines. Her reply gives me hope that we have at last found when and where Thomas Court entered the U.S. I'm still investigating, but wanted to share the news. I have asked her for more information and will let you all know as soon as I receive her reply. This is her e-mail to me:

Hi Debbie
I'm not sure that your ancestors are related as we don't have any Thomas Cort born around that time. I have however looked up passenger lists for the years 1820 /1830 and there is listed a Thomes Court, age unknown , who arrived in USA 1826.
Ship: Delas
Port of departure Liverpool
Port of Arrival: New Orleans
Date of Arival: March 2, 1826.
This would tie in with your dates. There are severals strands of the Cort family in the Lancashire area. Also the family of Henry Cort the inventor. They came from Lancaster.Hope this is of some use. If there is anything I can do , let me know.
Good hunting
Di.

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"Maybe someday one of us will luck out and find more info or the actual manifest somewhere. I could try writing New Orleans, but have no idea where to even start on to get the listing. Do you have any ideas."

Note; found Ship Delis Liverpool, England to Boston, Massachusetts
25 September 1826 master: Joseph Hatch Junior
http://immigrantships.net/1800/delos18260925.html


Residence:
After John McGaffey moved to Sabine Pass in 1832, he was joined in the same year by Thomas Courts, an Englishman, who had abandoned the Lavaca Bay region because of hostile Indians.

55 History of The Thomas Courts Family, Port Arthur News, undated clipping, circa 1938, copy owned by the writer.
(W.T. Block)


Residence:
per historical marker in Lions Park in Sabine Pass


Property:
Property surveyed on May 3rd, 1850.


Property:
List compiled 1 May 1838, Jefferson County, recorded in Beaumont.
Thomas Court 1 league and labor Immigrated to country (Texas) 1829)

Thomas* married Ann* Johnson on 19 Aug 1828 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Ann* (daughter of Moses** Johnson and Nancy** Anna Robert) was born in 1810 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died after 1860 in of, Calhoun Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1831, Lavaca Bay region, Texas
• Census: 08 Oct 1850, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 19 Jun 1860, Aransas, Refugio Co, Texas
• Census: 18 Jul 1860, Calhoun Co (Precinct 4), Texas; P.O. Saluria Island

Notes:

Marriage Bond:
Bonded by Thomas Court and James Cole - witnessed by David Simmons and Ben B. Jefferson.
License: Witnesses: Jake & David Simmons; performed by Isham Nettles, Baptist minister.
Certificate: Ben B. Jefferson and David Simmons

Benjamin B. Jefferson was one of the witnesses attending to the sale account of the estate of Nancy Sullivan on September 15, 1929

Note: Daughters of Moses Johnson and Nancy Roberts -
1. Anna m Thomas Court 2. Marie m James Hayes, Sr.
child James Madison Court child James Hayes, Jr.
child Helmer Samuel Courts child Matilda Hayes
child Claudie Gentz
Helmer Samuel Courts m Claudie Gentz, 1st cousins, once removed.

1850 Jeff Co census shows Anna head of household with only Lucretia and Paul Phelan, ages 10 and 6, living at home.

1860 Rufugio census:
Enis Burrows 59 Blacksmith, $300 (value personal real estate) ?
Ann 52 LA
Paul 14 TX

Residence:
After John McGaffey moved to Sabine Pass in 1832, he was joined in the same year by Thomas Courts, an Englishman, who had abandoned the Lavaca Bay region because of hostile Indians.

Census:
8 oct 1850 Sabine Pass
(census pages does not say "Sabine Pass" but the census taker was Worth Patridge, who was a prominent citizen of Sabine Pass)

residence 99
Anna Court 40 1810 Louisiana
Lucretia 10 1840 Texas
Paul P. 6 1846 Texas

residence 100
Francis Gallier (Sr) 50 farmer 1800 Louisiana
Mary 52 1798 Louisiana
Eliza Myers 14 1836 Louisiana
Melissa Ann 6 1844 Louisiana

(Eliza and Melissa Myers, Mary's orphaned granddaughters, children of her daughter Amelia Hayes and Benjamin Myers.)

residence 101
Francis Gallier, Jr. 30 1820 farmer Louisiana
Mary 35 1815 Louisiana
Amelia 9 1841 Louisiana
Adelia 7 1843 Louisiana
Mary E 2 1848 Louisiana
Quinton 1/12 1850 Texas
John Acres 19 1831 Louisiana

residence 102
Robert Burrell 47 1803 farmer Louisiana
Susannah 46 1804 Louisiana
David 15 Texas 1835 Texas
Hester 12 1838 Texas
Frederick 7 1843 Texas




Census:
residence 21
Burris Enos 58 1802 England black smith 400
Burris Anna 52 1808 Louisiana
Burris Paul 14 1846 Texas

residence 22
DeForest John 33 1827 New York sailor 500
DeForest Lucrecia 17 1843 Texas (Court)
DeForest Thomas 2 1858 Texas
DeForest Robert 1 1859 Texas

Census:
Burris Enos 58 1802 England black smith 400
Burris Anna 52 1808 Louisiana
DeForrist John 35 1825 New York sailor 500
DeForrist Lucrecia 17 1843 Texas (Court)
DeForrist Paul F.C. 15 1845 Texas (Court)

Notes:

Married:
Court, Thomas of England (Thomas & Ellen Anesworth) m 19 Aug 1828 Ann Johnson (Opel Ct hse mar # 51)