Wesley Hayes

Notes:

His horse fell and killed him.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Hayes, Thomas (John & Anne Clark ) bt 5 June 1826 at age 16 (GC Ch.: v 1, p 50)
Hayes, Thomas (John & Anne Clark) bt 5 Jun 1826 at age 16 years. Spons: Jean Andres & Rebecca Bosseley. Fr. Jean D. Rosti (GC Ch: v1, p 50)


HAYES: TOWN FIRST KNOWN AS DUGAS PASTURE
In the beginning Hayes was known as DUGAS PASTURE, or La Savanne des Duga s. It was named for Dugas, a cattle grazer from Andrus Cove, who discover ed this bountiful pasture land ideal for grazing his wild cattle. They cou ld be kept here without supervision because the area was bounded on the ea st by the Lacassine Bayou, on the north and west by swamp, and on the sou th by marsh.

Eloi Primeaux of Hayes, who?s done extensive research on this area says, t here is no recorded history on the Dugas family, except that they were Aca dians, migrating to Louisiana in about 1755, and settling at AndrusCove, t wo miles northeast of Lake Arthur. They had large herds of cattle.

Dugas did not want settlers to come into this area because they?d ruin h is good cattle and his pastureland. He managed to keep them off, until Tho mas Hayes came along. It is believed that Dugas may have died about that t ime.

Thomas Hayes? ancestor - William Hayes - came to Louisiana some times befo re 1784 from Halifax , PA, and settled in St. Landry parish. In 1832 Thom as Hayes moved into Dugas Pasture to become the first white settler ther e. He married Mary Ann Foreman, from Andrus Cove, and they settled near t he Lacassine Bayou.

Hayes' great-great granddaughter, Mrs. Tom Taylor of Lake Charles tel ls of a near tragedy the Hayes suffered shortly after moving to Dugas Past ure. "Thomas Hayes was gravely ill with typhoid fever. There were no neigh bors, and no doctors. Their child -Paren - was just a toddler.

"Mrs. Hayes knew she had to leave to get help for her critically ill husba nd, so she tied the young toddler to the bedstead, put out plenty of fo od and water for him, and left. Crossing the Lacassine Bayou in a pirogu e, she then used a horse to travel about tifteen miles through the isolate d, unsettled territory to the Andrus Cove Ferry on the Mermentau. James An drus took her to his home by flatboat. Then he got William Holland To ri de to Crowley To find a doctor .

Two days later the group got back to the Hayes home where they found Thom as Hayes still alive and recuperating from his battle with typhoid. The yo ung child - Paren - who'd been tied to the bedstead, was dirty, and crust y, and upset. But he was physically alright.

Nola Mae Wittler

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=swla2010&id=I001325

Census:
1860 Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
pg 31
214 Tanner Thomas L 39 1821 Tennessee
214 Tanner Melissa Ann (Forman) 30 1830 Louisiana
(dau of Wm Forman & Susan Cole.
pats: George Forman (s/o Edward) & Sarah Erwin
mats: Solomon Cole (s/o James & Mary Rentfroe)
214 Tanner Richard J 8 1852 Louisiana
214 Tanner Elizabeth 6 1854 Louisiana
214 Tanner Thomas W 4 1856 Louisiana
214 Tanner David A 2 1858 Louisiana

217 Holland William 48 1812 Tennessee
217 Holland Zelima (Forman) 35 1825 Louisiana (d/o James & Susanne Cole)
pats: Edward Forman & Marie Burnet; mats: James Cole & Jemimah Curtis
217 Holland James 15 1845 Louisiana
217 Holland David 13 1847 Louisiana
217 Holland Mary Ann 11 1849 Louisiana
217 Holland Susan 9 1851 Louisiana
217 Holland Elizabeth 7 1853 Louisiana
217 Holland William 4 1856 Louisiana
217 Holland John 2 1858 Louisiana

218 Hayes Perrin 26 1834 Louisiana (s/o Thomas & Mary Ann Forman, sis of Zelima Forman)
218 Hayes Mary 21 1839 Louisiana
218 Hayes Enoch 2 1858 Louisiana
218 Stine Rebecca 11 1849 Louisiana

219 Andrus James 34 1826 Louisiana
219 Andrus Lucetta (Hayes) 22 1838 Louisiana (dau of Thomas & Mary Ann Forman)
219 Andrus Martha 7 1853 Louisiana
219 Andrus Celistia 2 1858 Louisiana
219 Stine Florida 14 1846 Louisiana (Lucetta's 2nd cousin)

220 Hayes Thomas 52 1808 Louisiana
220 Hayes Mary Ann (Forman) 47 1813 Louisiana
(sis of Zelima Forman)
220 Hayes Melissa Ann 17 1843 Louisiana
220 Hayes Tolivar 15 1845 Louisiana
220 Hayes John 12 1848 Louisiana
220 Hayes Martha 10 1850 Louisiana
220 Hayes Lucretia 5 1855 Louisiana
220 Stine Mary 10 1850 Louisiana
(dau of Hypolite Stine, g/dau of Elizabeth Clark & John Stine Sr.
Thomas Hayes son of Elizabeth Clark's sister Anne; so his cousin's child)


Census:
residence 200
Paren Hayes 37 1833
Mary 30 1840
Enoch 12 1858
Elisa 10 1860
Sarah 7 1863
Lucretia 3 1867
Paren Hayes 2 1868

Thomas Hayes 62 farm 400; 2000
Mary Ann Hayes 55 keeping house
Alcide Hebert 18 farm laborer
Mary Hebert 19 keeping house
Lucretia Hayes 15 keeping house
Melliscar David 7
James Forman 17 farm labor
Fanny Derouen 12 black, servant

Thomas married Mary Ann Forman on 19 Nov 1831 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Mary (daughter of James Forman and Susanne Cole) was born on 04 Mar 1815 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died on 15 Oct 1889 in Lacassine, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Hayes Cem, Hayes, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: 22 Nov 2010; parentage

Notes:

Research Notes:
Steve Forman's website has Mary Forman, who married Miles Welsh, as being daughter of James (George, Edward) and Mary Cole.

Buried:
Lacasine, Oct 16, 1889

Mrs Mary Ann Hayes, aged 74 years, relict of Thos. Hayes, a venerable a nd amiable lady of this place died at her home, "The Pasture" yesterday th e15th inst. Mrs Hayes leaves two sons, Toliver and John Hayes, and three d aughters, Mesdames Jas. Andrus, Aras Hebert and Clebert Derouen, well-kno wn and esteemed residents of this section of country, and many friends wi ll deeply sympathize with them in their bereavements. LC Echo 10/1859

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=swla2010&id=I032312

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Presbyterian/Catholic
• Birth: 1775, Natchez, British West Florida
• Birth: 18 May 1795, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1810, Opelousas Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Hayes, John of this parish; Presbytherian (William & Sarah Bosman) m Monday 18 May 1795 Anne Clark of Virginia (Francis Clark & Rachel Melon). She was baptized the same day, her godparents are: Augustin Andrus & Lucie Andrus. Marriage Wits: Joseph Modena, James Andrus, Peter O'Conner, Anne Clary. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel Ch v 1-A, p 55)

This family can be found in WFT Vol. 5, #1179
(SWLA Records, Hebert Vol 1 pp 129, 273)
John, with his parents and their other children, came to the area of LA that later became Acadia Parish. The family was settled in this area by 1784.
It is not clear whether Anna's parents were ever in LA, however records show that she and her brothers and sisters were here by 1790 and possibly earlier. (Hebert: SWLA Records v 1 pp 129-132)
John was a Presbyterian and Anna was Lutheran. They were both married by a Catholic priest in Opelousas, LA on May 18, 1795. They were both baptized Catholic the day they were married, renouncing their ties with Protestantism. One can oness whether they remained in the Catholic Church. Bapt. records for their children cannot be found in the area churches except for their son Thomas who was bapt. in Grand Coteau, La. (Cath. Ch) at the age of 16.
John owned a 400 acre riverbank strip of land on Bayou Plaquemine Brulee. (Fontenot: History of Acadia Parish Vol 1 p 21, 39)
Anna died before John. Their community property was auctioned on Oct 30, 1821. The total amount realized from the sale was $876.00.
(John Hayes m. Anna Clark d/o Francis Clark and Rachael Mellon May 18, 1795 Opel Ch v I p 55.
Hayes, John m Anna Clark in Succ. of Anna Clark, dated Sept 1821 Opel. Ct.Hse.: Succ #231)

Census:
Name: John Hayes
State: LA
County: Opelousas Parish
Township: 31010-11010-00
Year: 1810
Record Type: Petitioner's List
Page: 308
Database: LA Early Census

1810 Federal Census
Name: John Hayes
County: Opelousas
State: Louisiana
Free White Males Under 10: 3
Free White Males 10 to 15: 1
Free White Males 26 to 44: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1
Free White Females 10 to 15: 1
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 8

John married Anne Clark on 18 May 1795 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Anne (daughter of Patrick* "Francios" Clark, (Immigrant) and Rachel* (Mary) Melon (or Malone)) was born in 1775 in Maryland (of Virginia); died before Sep 1821 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran/Catholic
• Birth: 18 May 1795, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Lutheran; English
SLR Clark, Anne a single adult about age 20 yrs., "educada en la secta Lutherana" (educated or reared in the Lutheran religion) (Francois & Rachel Mellon - "Ingleses de este Puesto" (English of this Post]) bt Mon 18 May 1795 at age 20 yrs. spons: Augustin Andrews & Lucy Andrews, having received sufficient instruction in the "misterios" [mysteries] of the Holy Catholic Religion, "aunque por un Interprete ingles" {although by an English interpreter]. See the entry next from the register of marriages. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p 129).

Clark Anne of Virginia, she was baptized the same day, her godparents are : Augustin Andrus & Lucie Andrus (Francis Clark & Rachel Melon) m 18 May 1795 John Hayes, Presbyterian (William & Sarah Bosman). Wits: Joseph Modena, James Andrus, Peter O'Connor, Anne Clary. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel Ch.: v. 1-A, p 55)

Clark, Ana (Francois and Rachel Meloni) m 18 May 1795 Jean Hayes (Opel Ch v 1, p 55 & 1-supp #2/St.Landry Catholic Church, Opel, La)
Clark, Ana, Lutheran; English (Francois & Rachel Melloni) bt 18 May 1795 at age 20 years and is also married.
SLR Vol 2, Anna, Wid. of John Hayes succ Sept 1821 (Opel Ct. Hse succ #231)
The Opelousas Post: Francisco Clark; Raquel Mellone, English.
Ana - an adult single woman; baptized May 18, 1795, twenty years old, enouncing the Lutheran faith; Godparents, Agustin Andrews and Lucia Andrews
Anna married (1) John Hayes on 18 May 1795 in St. Landry, LA. John was born 1773. He died about 1821 in St.Landry, LA (annotated Abstracts of the Succession of St. Mary Parish by Sanders; Succ #231 St. Landry, LA
The Opelousas Post: Juan Hayes, a Presbyterian, son of Guillermo (William) Hayes & Sarah Bosman, native of Virginia, Ana Clara-daughter of Francisco Clark and Raquel Meloni, married May 18, 1795.

Notes:

Married:
Opelousas Post
JUAN HAYES - a Presbyterian; son of Guillermo Hayes and Sara Bosman native of Virginia; ANA CLARK - daughter of Francisco Ciark and Raquel Meloni. Married May 18, 1795.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1810, Opelousas. St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1820, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
• Research Notes: 30 Nov 2015

Notes:

Foreman, James of this parish (Edward & Marie Barrett) m 5 Feb 1805 Susan Cole of Natchez (James & Maime Cotter) Wits: David Harmon, Joseph Andrus, John Andrus, John Close.
Fr. Louis Buhot (Opel Ch v 1-B - Protestant Marriages 1787-1830 p 12)
Forman, James of Opel (Edouard & Marie Burnett) m 5 Feb 1805 Susanne Cole of Natchez (Opel Ch: v.1-supp. #24)

(Fontenot: Acadia Parish, La Vol 1 P 42)
The Cole and Foreman families both lived for a time in the Natchez District of Mississippi before moving to Louisiana. Members of both families were early settlers in the area which is now know as Acadia Parish. James Cole, who was Susan's father and James Foreman are both shown to be owners of riverbank strips of land fronting Bayou Plaquemine Brulee on an Acadia Par. map that represents land ownership prior to 1803. James Foreman was the original owner of his tract, claiming ownership by settlement and occupancy. (Fontenot: Acadia Parish La Vol 1 P 21)
Susan and James were married 5 Feb 1805. the Marriage was registered in the Opelousas Catholic Church. (Hebert: Southwest La Records, vol 1 p 135).
Apparently James did not retain ownership of his land on Bayou Plaquemine Brulee but moved his family to another area. Several bits of information substantiate this. George King, probate judge from Opelousas at the time of James' death i3 stated in the succession that he had traveled 70 miles to the last residence of the deceased. It is not possible to travel that distance from Opelousas and still be on Bayou Plaquemine Brulee. Further, Hampton Holland, orally relating family history stated that his grandmother, Zilia Ann Foreman (dau. of James and Susan) was from the Lacassine, LA area. Lacassine is about 70 miles "as the crow flys" from Opelousas. (St. Landry Parish Court House. Succ # 619)
Susan remarried in 1835 to Nelson Higginbotham, widower of Judith Ware. Mr Higginbotham received his authority to celebrate marriages in 1832 and thereby was a Justice of the Peace.
Susan died in 1881 at age 92.
Sources for the children of this marriage and their spouces is Hampton Holland and Sadie Davis by Melba Brown Martin P 35, (Bell City Library)
_____________
From: winston@asbank.com (winston)
Source: Acadia Parish History to 1900, by: Mary Alice Fontenot,
Chapter II, Colonial landowners, pg. 42, 51.

Item: Accross on the Bayou's north bend was the property of James Foreman, the original landowner, claimed by settlement and occupancy. The foreman land was adjacent to Antoine Blanc's large holding on upper Plaquemine Brulee. The son of Edward Foreman, native of Virginia, and Marie Burnett (Bonnet, Barnett) he was married in 1805 to Susan Cole, daughter of James, originally of Natchez and Maime Cotter. (Marriage source?: Henry Newton Pharr genealogical records)
"Acadia Parish History to 1900"


Census:
Name: James Forman
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Opelousas, Louisiana
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2 Sarah, Catherine
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 1785-1794
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members Over 25: 1
Number of Household Members: 4


Census:
Name: James Foreman
Home in 1820 (City, County, State):
St Landry, Louisiana
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2 Jacob, David
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 1795-1804 ?
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 1774-1796 James
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2 Mary Ann & Melissa
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2 Sarah, Catherine
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 1774-1796 Susanna Cole
Slaves - Females - Under 14: 1
Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2
Free White Persons - Under 16: 6
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total Slaves: 2
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 11

Name: James Foreman Junior
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): St Landry, Louisiana
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2 Elisha, Jesse
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Slaves - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2
Free White Persons - Under 16: 2
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total Slaves: 2
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 6


Research Notes:
Trees on Rootsweb show the James married To MCCleland as the son of James and Susan Cole. Dates are close to not working. Forman/McCleland m was 1819 Forman/Cole m 1806. If James Jr b after marriage, then 1806 makes him only 13 to marry in 1819. Est his b at 1800 is 4 yrs before marriage.
Also, mother Susanne Cole - b 1789. He could not be her son and born 1800 or any time earlier. That puts her at 11. If she were 15, that puts him b at 1804, meaning he married at 15 - which is the only possible age to meet both dates, but not likely. Doesn't quite add up.

update 30 Nov 2015
Looking at 1820 census and age groups, James Sr. and James Jr. are both in the same age range, 26-44. Each has to be at the respective far end of the range, meaning James Jr. was born abt 1796, so his marriage to Elizabeth in 1819 would be 23 years. However if Susanne Cole born 1789 is his mother, that puts her age at his birth at 7. James Sr.'s age 18. James Sr. must have had a 1st wife.

Died:
James Forman Sr; succession #619, filed St. Landry 2 Jun 1833.

James married Susanne Cole on 5 Feb 1805 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Susanne (daughter of James Cole (Coale) and Jemimah Curtis) was born on 16 Dec 1789 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died in 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cole, Susan of Natchez (James & Maime Cotter) m 5 Feb 1805 James Forman of this parish (Edward & Marie Barrett). Wits: David Harmon, Joseph Andrus, John Andrus, John Close. Fr. Louis Buhot (Opel Ch: v.1-B - Protestant Marriages 1787-1830, p 12)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Presbyterian
• Military: Militia, Fairfax, Virginia
• Birth: 8 Aug 1733, East Marlborough Twp, Chester Co, Pennsylvania; Quaker - this William?
• Other-Begin: 4 Jan 1754, Fairfax Co, Virginia; witness of will of Mary Love Bozman
• Residence: Aft 1770, North Carolina
• Possessions: 14 Nov 1776, Second Creek, Natchez District, Mississippi; 400 acres
• Property: 9 Apr 1777, Second Creek, Natchez District, Mississippi
• Property: 25 Sep 1777, Second Creek, Natchez District, Mississippi
• Residence: Bef 1779, British West Florida/Natchez, Mississippi
• Other-Begin: 17 Jan 1779, Natchez, Mississippi; petition
• Residence: 04 Oct 1779, Natchez District, Mississippi; signed Petition
• Residence: Bef 1784, Acadia Parish, Louisiana
• Other-Begin: 11 Jun 1793, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; wit m Laughlin/Forman
• Possessions: 28 Oct 1797, Second Creek, Natchez District, Mississippi
• Possessions: 06 Nov 1797, Second Creek, Natchez District, Mississippi
• Census: 1810, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
• Research Notes: 12 Jun 2016; son of William of Chester?

Notes:

(Other spellings: Haysse, Heiss)

William Hayes and Sarah Bozman
William Hayes born abt 1730, was a Presbyterian and a native of Halifax, Pennsylvania. Halifax is on the Susquehanna River about twenty miles north of Harrisburg. Sarah Bozman, born about 1735 was the daughter of Thomas Bozman. She was fairfax County, Virginia, an area that borders the District of Columbia. William and Sarah were married by 1753 as they are mentioned as husband and wife in Thomas Bozman's will which bears that date.
In 1754 he appears on Fairfax Co, VA Vote Poll as freeholder, when he takes over the plantation after the death of Thomas and Mary Bosman.
(1) When William and Sarah left Virginia, they moved to North Carolina, then to Natchez MS, before settling in Louisiana at some time before 1784.
Nov 14, 1773, purchased 3400 acres, MS Territory. Stayed 20 years.
Nov 14, 1776, purchased 200 acres in Natchez, MS
from the English land grants of 1768-79:
Benjamin Roberts, October 9, 1777, 250 arpents
James Cole, March 20, 1778, 550 arpents
William Hay, 1773, 1773, 1776, 3400 arpents
Isaac Johnson of Second/Sandy Creel, Sep 1, 1777 1,000 arpents

1784 settled in Plaquemine Brulee, LA (Prairie Hayes)
(2) They settled in an area on Bayou Plaquemine Brulee that later became Acadia Parish, LA. William owned a riverbank strip of land consisting of 507.83 acres shown on an Acadia Parish map that represents land ownership prior to perty was adjacent to the Jacob Harmon property, the eastern boundry extending to the present community of Branch. The property was bounded on the south by land originally claimed by Benjamin Andrus, Jr., William's sons John and Bozman, owned property directly across the river. Also across the river from William's property was land purchased by Antoine Blanc in 1784 by Nementou, chief or the Attakapas. The deed was signed by Nementou and 13 of his warriors who inhabited the Indian village of the riverbank at the time. William served as a witness for the passage of the sale. (3)
He was in the Opelousas Post General Census of 1788 at Plaquimines Brulees. Wm Haysse, father, 1 male 30 age gr., Wm Haysse, son 1 male 20 age gr., 1 woman, 1 boy, 1 girl. (Voorhies p 329)
From Temple:
Deposition 9/5/1815, MS Territory. William Hayes swore that his whole crop was destroyed by the Indians, a valuable mare stolen, some cattle, and a considerable quantity of hogs, the value of the whole of which was $300.


Sources
1 Virginia, Fairfax County Wills ; 57
2 Hebert: Southwest Louisiana Records Vol 1 pp 79, 274, 275
3 Fontenot: Acadia Parish, Louisiana Vol 1 pp 10-12
Children - Hebert SW La Records Vol 1 pp. 7, 8, 129, 226, 273, 274.
Vol II pp 429, 430, 503, 678.

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American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
Name: William Hayes
Birth Date: 1730
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Volume: 76
Page Number: 99
Reference: Ten "Series" of "Pennsylvnia Archives" have been so far published in from 5 to 31v. Ea. Philadelphia and Harrisburg. 1852- ( We have indexed Series 2, v.2 and v.8 ( early Pa. marriage recds.) And all the v. of SeriesV. Which contain nearly complete Pa. Rev. War recds.)s2, v2:396

--
He witnessed the marriages of several of Edward Forman Sr., children:
Mary m 1784 (married his son James)
Jenny m 1788
Eliz m 1790
Catherine m 1793


Other-Begin:
witnessed will of Mary Love Bosman, written 4 Jan 1754; his
step-mother-in-law (step mother of his wife Sarah Bosman.)
Also witness same will was a John Hayes, obviously a relative to William. Brother?


Possessions:
p 517 Natchez, 28 Oct 1797 William Ratcliff deposed on oath that he did purchase from Mr. William Hayes 200 acres on Second Creek, joining land of Emanuel Madden, part of 400 acres gr. said Wm Hayes by British Government, 14 Nov 1776, which patent was brought from the Land Office at Pensacola by Col Hutchins..

Property:
Natchez Court records, p 496
Claim No. 1769
9 Apr 1777 William Hays and Sarah, his wife, to William Ratcliff, for 40 pounds sterling, paid, 200 acres, 10 miles north (?) of Natchez on Second Creek, patented to ad Hays 14 Nov 1776, adj. Jeremiah Germain.
(signed) William Hays, Sarah (x) Hays, Wit: A.B. Llewellin.

Property:
Natchez Court Records
p 495
p 272 Claim No. 1770
British Govn to Emanuel Madden warrant of survey for 100 acres, 25 Sep. 1777. Grant of same on south fork of Second Cr. 10 miles east of Natchez, b. on SW by Wm Hays.


Other-Begin:
PETITION BY THE ENGLISH INHABITANTS OF THE NATCHEZ AREA IN 177914 May 2011 , http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFH11&CISOPTR=120058&REC=1&CISOBOX=guice

PETITION BY THE ENGLISH INHABITANTS OF THE NATCHEZ AREA IN 1779
TO THE BRITISH

Sir
Natches January 17. 1779
TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR CHESTER

We, His Majesty's Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, Inhabitants of the Natches, beg leave to acknowledge our sincere and hearty thanks for your Excellency's great care and attention to this District and the various measures from time to time adopted for the Defense thereof by which means our Enemies are, and have been, much awed by this part of the Country protected and defended and our property safely preserved and kept from such fate as hath been often devised and decreed against it. Permit us to assure your Excellency that our weak endeavors were ever exerted, never failing to assemble on all occasions when called upon by Colonel Hutchins, who on alarms hath often required our attendance, and the same Loyal Principles we hope will ever govern us to act with spirit in the future on such emergencies. You also have our thanks for appointing him to preside here, who is more likely than any other person yet offered to defend this District, to be useful in other respects and to yield a general satisfaction to our most virtuous inhabitants.

We do also most heartily thank the Honorable Colonel John Stuart, ESQ.. for the aid of his Loyal Refugees under Captain Jackson's command who have been very useful to us. And also for the Company under the command of Captain William Mcintosh,
lately arrived, and hope they will be of no less service. And as it is reported by Captain Mcintosh and William Bethune that Indians are to be sent here, we do most ardently beg and request that no such may ever appear amongst us under the name of a
defense, as most of us are too well acquainted with the Indians to put the least confidence in them. And as we conceive that would be as useless and burdensome at this time as those heretofore sent to the District. What more, therfore, can we expect of
them now than at that time can they answer any other purpose than to Destroy the province that ought to support and sustain this Post, and to keep us in bodily fear.

The Indians formerly sent here was a reason why many People and families left their Habitations. But another such visit forced upon us, we fear, will add to an unhappiness and too, probably to the Country's desolation. And we, a Loyal people, why then shall we be forced to leave our settlement and fly to a Despotick Dominion.

We are informed of a report in Pensacola, that the Inhabitants of this District whose cattle have been slaughtered for the support of the Troops and the Indians, were contented with the price of five dollars per hundred, which report we declare to be exceeding wrong and that we have always thought, and yet think it ought not to be less than six Dollars and a Quarter and hope that price will be made good to those Injured people whose Beeves have converted to the King's use at an under rate.

We beg leave to wish Your Excellency the Compliments of the season, with perfect health, length of days, long to preside and your Administration happy under the auspicious reign of our rightful Sovereign, inthroned on a Glorious Constitution; is the prayer of.

Sir Your most Devoted and Obedient Humble Servants:

To His Excellency Governor Chester

1st list

Silas Crane
Christopher Mair
Abednigo Llewellyn
Charles Allen
Parker Carridme
William Ratliff
Johnas Gardner
Lewis Bingamon*
Nathaniel Johnson
Israel Matthews
John Ellis, Sr.
Cephas Kenard
Thomas Jordan
William Joyner
Coleby Rucker*
Charles Simmons*
Clement Dyson Sr.
Clement Dyson Jr.
Joseph Dyeer

2nd List

Thomas Dyer

John Dyson

James Coplen

Benjamin Carroll

John Carrel

Francis Steed*
David Wallman*
David Wallman, Jr. *

Solomon Wallman*


Luke Sexton*
William Meaks
Francis Meek
Samuel Osborne
Alexander Boyd
John Smith
George Stampley*
Stephen Dalba '(Dalla?) *
Jeremiah Routh

3rd List

Thomas Carter
David Holt
Ebebezer Gawsett*
Richard Dun*
Samuel Heady
Daniel Gardner
Jacob Stampley

Dibdall Holt

Henry Stampley*

Peter Stampley*
Henry Platna*
Jesse Carter
Isaac Alexander
Nathan Swayze
James Wilson*
Ira Witmore

4th list

Daniel Maygott
Elijah Leonard
Samuel Frazer
Edward Cartoss
Isaac Sheldon
John Felt
Joel Weed
C. Bingamon
Thaddeus Lyman
Nehemiah Carter
Senno E. Dwight

Thomas James
Josheau Howard

Jacob Cobeen (Coburn)

Samuel Gibson

Patt Clemons

Absalom Hooper

Stephen Holsten

Anthony Brabnazon

Stephen Jourden *
James Simmons*
Sterling Spell*
Stephen Mayes
John Ogg
Robert Dunbar
Earl Douglas
Timothy Hotchkiss

M. Phelps

5th list
Joseph Andrus
Isiah Flower
Joseph Halford
Philip Alston
John McCoy Alston
John Terry
John Staybraker
Joseph Schofield
John Horsier
Nathaniel Ive*
William W. Weber*
John Gayle
James Hannon

William Oglesby

John Hide
Anthony Hamberston*
Roger Harmen
Hezekiah Harmon
Elisha Flower

Mathias Friley*
James Crungetten
William Ellis Sr.
William Ellis
Immanuel Madden*
John Choty*
Richard King
John Holt*

6th list
Isaac Johnson
Stephen Swayze
Richard Swayze. Jr.
Bosman Hayes
Elizah Swayze
Samuel Swayze
John Holston*
Nathaniel Kennison*
Abraham Horton*
James Oglesby*
Samuel Philips*
Thomas Love
James Perry*
John Shunk*
John Row
Caleb King
Justus King
William Hayes
Ephraim Goble
Thomas Atkinson
Thomas Holmes
Justus Swayze Ogden
James Clayton
William Hulbard
Job Cory
Ephriam Thomell
Thomas Harmon
Wm Reed
7th list
Samuel Lewis, Francis Spam, Christopher Guise, Sr., Jonathan Guise, David Guise, Manuel Guise, Christopher Guise, Jr., Jacob Harmon*, James Truly, Joseph Standlie, William Smith, John Ryan, John Talley*, James Lefloe, Oliver Lyman, John Absheir*, Jacob Paul, Hardis Ellis.
* Indicates person signed with a mark.



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Source: J.C. Guice's family history book entitled The Christopher Guice Family in America: Other Families, Harmon, Kinnison, Martin, Siddon, pp 27-29.

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFH11&CISOPTR=120058&REC =1&CISOBOX=guice

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/26340686/person/1975208727/story/1038d0b5-ca97-4a38-b122-1a5490e2df7d?src=search


Residence:
PETTITION FROM THE CITIZENS
OF NATCHEZ
OCTOBER 4, 1779


To Lieut Colonel Dickson 16th Regiment Commanding
His Britannick Majesty's Forces in the River Mississippi

Natchez, 4th October 1779

We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects the Inhabitants of the Natchez beg leave to return you our most sincere thanks for your generous and disintersted attention to our welfare in the Capitulation of Baton Rouge. From every Circumstance We had not, a Right to Expect such Terms and are fully impressed with the Idea that we owe them to the Unexampled bravery of you, the Officers and Men under your Command. Altho' the unavoidable event of war has reduced you and your Troops to a situation which greatly affects us; yet we have some consolation from your being in the Hands of a brave and generous Conqueror.

We most earnestly wish you that Promotion hereafter which your metit justly demands, and in the mean time every happiness that your present situation will admit of.-


Wm Hiorn
Rudolphus Green
Francis Strain
J Blommart

Earl Douglass
Jacob Harmon
Wm McIntosh
Philip Mulkey

George Forney
Thadds Lyman
William Case
John Hartley

Chars Percy
Henry Lefleur
John Row
Dond McPherson

Patrick Foley
Richard Devall
William Vousdan
Andrew Whitefield

Caleb Hambrough
Will Ferguson
James Gregorie
James Gelison

John Alston
Peter Nelson
Jeremiah Cobb
Francis Farrel

Cesar Orcherrard
George Peavis
William Pountney
William Heyes <<<

Joseph Harris
Sam Wells
Thomas Carter
Absalom Hooper

Stepin mayes
Alexr McIntosh
Luke Collins
Will Eason

C Bingamon
Luke Collins Jr
Alexr Murray
Bemjamin Day

Theo Collins
Geo Boles
Elijah Leonard
John Collins

Dibdall Holt
Walter Carson
William Collins
Sterling Spell

Timothy Hochniss
Hardress Ellis
Parker Carradine
Stephen Jordan

John Bisland
John Kennide
James Truly



Other-Begin:
Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1990)
© 1975-2010 Claitor's Publishing Division

LAUGHLIN, Thomas - [name appears as Thomas NACLET, but he signs as Thomas LAUGHLIN] a Calvinist, from Virginia (Thomas NACLET & Esther FORMAN) married Tuesday, 11 June 1793 Catherine FORMAN - a Calvinist (Edward & Marie BOSNELL [BUSHNEL]) Witness: Andre MONDON, Peter McNEAL, William HAYSE Jr. Fr. Pedro de ZAMORA (Opel. Church : v.1-A, p.44)


Possessions:
Natchez Court Records 1767-1805 by May Wilson McBee
Pg 134
p 517 Natchez, 28 Oct 1797 William Ratcliff deposed on oath that he did purchase from Mr. William Hayes 200 acres on Second Creek, joining land of Emanuel Madden, part of 400 acres gr. said Wm Hayes by British Government, 14 Nov 1776, which patent was brought from the Land Office at Pensacola by y Col Hutchins and was in deponent's possession a considerable time and by him delivered to William Hayes who declares that he lost it; deponent declares the 200 acres remaining are to the best of his knowledge still the property of said Hayes. Signed: Emanuel Madden.
28 Oct 1797 Second Creek, Natchez District, Missiippi

Possessions:
Natches Court Records; pg 134:
p 517 6 Nov 1797, William Hayes to Reuben Baxter, of Dist, of Natchez, Planter, 200 acres herein before mentioned; for $150, paid. Both sign. Wit: Juan Girault, Estevan Minor

Census:
Family outline of his son William III indicates a male over 45. This is probably him. It would not be Sarah's father as he had died in Virginia.


Research Notes:
Was William "Guillermo" Hayes, really the son of the Chester County William Hayes?
Gleaning from Internet, some say William of Chester had a son born 8-8-1733 but I found no sources for this birth. William of Chester had a will written in 1770s, executed in 1780s, and named some if not all children and grandchildren of deceased children. It did not mention a William. William of Chester had been in Chester as early as 1707 or 1710 when his father moved there. The family were Quakers. He briefly lived in Delaware, (east of Chester Co) in 1764 but returned to Chester Co.

William "Guillermo" records (source?) say he was born "about 1730," a native of Halifax and a Presbyterian. Halifax, Dauphin County, is about 85 miles to the west of Chester County. That is the only reference to William "Guillermo" being in Halifax. He is next found in Fairfax County, Virginia when he married in 1753 and then witnessed the will of his wife's stepmother in 1754.

If nothing else, William "Guillermo" is "by tradition" son of William of Chester, but I can find no proof. However, there is no proof he's not. What is the source that he was a native of Halifax? Could have just lived in Halifax before going to Fairfax. If he is indeed son of William of Chester, he could have set out to Halifax as a young man and then went south to Fairfax by the time he was either 20 or 23. Probably not uncommon for men to set out on their own at 18 or 19 years old. He was Presbyterian. Did he simply convert from being raised a Quaker? If so, was he estranged from his family and that's why he left and was omitted from the will? Was it because he was too far away by the time of his father's will? By that time he had moved from Fairfax further south and was established in Natchez before moving to Louisiana.

William* married Sarah* Celeste Bosman in 1753 in Fairfax Co, Virginia. Sarah* (daughter of Thomas* Bosman (Bozman) and Mary* Key) was born on 20 Mar 1734 in Fairfax Co, Virginia; died in 1788 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1735, North Carolina; marriage record
• Property: 4 Jan 1754, Fairfax Co, Virginia; will of step-mom Mary Love Bozman
• Census: 1910, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Her father's will dated 9 December 1753: I give my eldest daughter Sarah Hayes the Bed which she now lies on and the furniture and the bedstead at Pohick. I also give her a horse called Whistler and one Iron pot and small frying pan and four hairs.

Property:
"It is my desire that my part of the rest of my Estate may be equally divided amongst my dear Husband's children Sarah Hayes, Martha Bozman and Betty Bozman"

Notes:

Married:
Name: William Hayes
Gender: Male
Birth Place: PA
Birth Year: 1730
Spouse Name: Sarah Celeste Bozman
Spouse
Birth Place: NC
Spouse Birth Year: 1735
Marriage
Year: 1753
Number Pages: 4

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Bef 1767, Ireland

Notes:

Note: LV Hayes only source for parents.

SLR Vol 1, Francois m Rachel Melon of Caroline (SM Ch/St.Martin of Tours Church
Clark, Patrick of Ireland m Rachel Melony (SM Ch./St. Martin of Tours Church)
Patrick married (1) Rachel Melon, daughter of Melon and unk about 1770. Rachel was born abt 1755 in MD/PA.
Melon, Rachel m Franois Clark, m/2 Joachim (Joshua) Garet (Garrett).

There was a possible connection between the Clarks and the Stephens in Maryland. There is a Rachel Clark who married William Stevens and some purport that she is the daughter of Francis; however her birth is 1792.
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Hebert references to Patrick v Francis:
SLR - 1750-1800, p 187
CLARK, Guillaume (William) (Jimi [James] CLARCK - native of Maryland & Ester COMSTOK - of New England) b 15 Dec 1800, bt 5 Feb 1807 higher up- at Prairie du Chicot Noir - at the home of --- LOISEL. Pats: Patrice (Patrick) CLARK - from Ireland & Rachel MELON - of Maryland; Mats: Guillaume COMSTOK (William CUMSTOLK) - from New England & Rachel ALREDGE - from the same (New England); Spons: James ANDRES & Rachel CLARCK. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v.6-A, p 21)

p 190
CLARK, William (James - of Mariland & Ester CUMSTOCK - of New England) b 15 Dec 1800, bt. 5 Feb 1807 at Chicot Noir - residence of a Mr. LOYSEL. Pats: Patrick CLARK of Ireland & Rachel MELON; Mats: William CUMSTOCK - of New England & Rachel ALREDGE - of New England; Spons: James ANDRUS & Rachel CLARK. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: Folio E, #53)

p 189
CLARK, Marie Louise (James - of Maryland, diocese of Baltimore & Esther COMSTOCK - of New England) b 10 Dec 1798, bt 21 Dec 1799. Pats: Patrick CLARK & Mary MELON - of America; Mats: Mr. COMSTOCK & Rachel HOLERIGE (ALDREDGE) - all Americans; Spons: Alexis CARLIN & Marguerite SENETIERE - wife of Pierre BONVILAIN. During a mission on Bayou Teych where I baptized at the place of JOHNSTON. End of the mission. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v.5, #215)

p 176
CLARK, George (James - of Maryland & Ester CUMSTOCK - of New England) b 23 Aug 1805, bt 5 Feb 1807 at Chicot Noir - residence of Mr. LOYSEL Pats: Patrick CLARK - of Ireland & Rachel MELON; Mats: William CUMSTOCK - of New England & Rachel ALREDGE - of New England; Spons: Joseph ANDRUS & Rachel ANDRUS. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: Folio E, p 53)

CLARK, George (Jimi [James] CLARCK - native of Maryland & Ester COMSTOK - of New England) b 23 Aug 1805, bt 5 Feb 1807 higher up at Prairie du Chicot Noir - at the home of --- LOISEL. Pats: Patrice (Patrick) CLARK - from Ireland & Rachel MELON - of Maryland; Mats: Guillaume COMSTOK (William CUMSTOLK) - from New England & Rachel ALREDGE - from the same (New England); Spons: Joseph ANDRES & Rachel ANDRES. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v.6-A, p 21)

Vol 2 (?) p 131
CLARK, James of Maryland (Patrick of Ireland & Rachel MELONY) m Ester CUMSTOK of New England (SM Ch.)

p 132
CLARK, Patrick of Ireland m Rachel MELONY (SM Ch.)

CLARK, Jean (James CLARK & Ester COMSTOCK) Pats: Francois CLARK of Ireland & Rachel MELON) - Fr. Gabriel ISABEY

CLARK, Ann (John - of Baltimore & Sara ROBERT) Pats: Francis CLARK & Rachel MELONE - Fr. Louis BUHOT

CLARK, Anne - a single adult about age 20 yrs (Francois & Rachel MELLON) Fr. Pedro de ZAMORA
CLARK, Anne - of Virginia, (Francis CLARK & Rachel MELON) m John HAYES, Fr. Pedro de ZAMORA

CLARK, John (Francis & Rachel MELLON), Fr. Pedro de ZAMORA

CLARK, Rachel (John of Baltimore & Sara ROBERT) - Pats: Francis CLARK & Rachel MELONE - Fr. Louis BUHOT

CLARK, Susan (John of Baltimore & Sara ROBERT) Pats: Francis CLARK & Rachel MELONE - Fr. Louis BUHOT

COMSTOCK, Esther (William COMSTOK & Rachel AULDBRIDGE) m Jacques CHARG (CLARK) (Francois of Maryland & Rachuel MILONE) Fr. de DEVA

Vol ?
CLARK, Ana (Francois & Rachel MELLONI)
CLARK, Celeste Sara (Francois of Ireland & Rachel MELON)
CLARK, Elizabeth (Francois & Rachel MELON)
CLARK, Francois m Rachel MELON
CLARK, Jean (Francois & Rachel MELONE) m Sarah ROBERTS
CLARK, John (Francois & Raquel MELHON)

Patrick* married Rachel* (Mary) Melon (or Malone) about 1767 in Maryland. Rachel* (daughter of John* Melon and (..) Melon, Mrs) was born in 1750 in Baltimore, Maryland; of Carolina; died on 15 Oct 1811 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed as "of Pennsylvania" in Catherine Garrett's marriage record.

Other entries to investigate:
Stout, Joseph, a convert-born and educated by Quakers bt 23 Sep 1792 (Opel Ch.: v.1 p 107)
Stout, Joseph, (Pierre & Marie Mollon) m 30 Sept 1792 Charlotte Bonvillain (Opel Ch.: v.1, p 41)
Rachel Melon's sister - est age of Marie Mollon - 1752

Listed in 1810 LA census:
Mellone, Patrick, Hartford
Melon, Lewis Attakapas Par 51010-00010-09
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Rose Meuillon, b: Abt. 1780, m: Abt. 1800 (if related to Rachel, have to be a bro's child)
m William Wells: (Wells, William m Rose Meuillon (Opel Ch))
Children:
1. Benjamin Wells; b: 13 Jun, 1802
Wells, Benjamin (Willing & Rose Meuillon) b 13 Jun 1802, bt 18 Dec 1806 at Bayou Bouf (Boeuf) Spons: Jacques Lamotte & Luce Meuillon. Fr. Louis Buhot (Opel Ch. v.1-B, p 397)
2. Emelie Wells; b: 3 Apr, 1804 of Bayou Rouge
Wells, Emilie (Wiling & Rose Meuillon) b 3 Apr 1804, bt 18 Dec 1806 at Bayou Bouf (Boeuf) Spons: William Miller & Jeanne Meuillon. Fr. Louis Buhot (Opel Ch: v 1-B, p 397)
3. Desiree Wells; b: 11 Oct, 1805
Wells, Desiree (Willing & Rose Meuillon) b 11 Oct 1806, bt 18 Dec 1806 at Bayou Bouf (Boeuf) Spons: Valentine Laissard; Eulalie Wells. Fr. Louis Buhot (Opel Ch: v1-B, p 397)
4. William Wells; b: 19 Aug, 1810
Wells, William (William & Rose Meuillon) b 19 Aug 1810, bt 17 Jul 1811 at Bayou Bouef Spons: Benjamin Wells & Eugenie Lamotte. Fr. Louis Buhot (Opel Ch v. 1-B, p 533)
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(Also spelled Rachuel, Mary, Melony, Meloni, Melloni, Milone, Melhon)
Also Pennsylvania, Maryland, Caroline.
If the birth dates are correct, she was only 13 when she had her first child.
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... was at the Vermilion Parish GenWeb site tonight and found the cemetery where Rachel Clark and second husband Joshua Garret are buried. Thought you might like the information. Sounds as though it was the family cemetery on Garret land. I keep wanting to spell Garret with two t's. I live on Garrett Ave. Would never have found this information if I hadn't gotten the name of Rachel's second husband from you.
Thanks
Terry

GARRET-BERWICK CEMETERY, Garret Plantation, Bayou Sale, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by R. Paul Adams (adams@mail.lded.state.la.us)

This family cemetery is located at lat. 29.7027 North, Long. 91.4688 W, in Section 60, Township-15-South, Range-10-East, on the West side of Bayou Sale Road, (State Route 317), between the Southern Pacific Rail Road and the Intracoastal Waterway.

The following tombstone inscriptions and miscellaneous information was compiled by Mrs. Clyde Alpha, Mrs. Southwell Fisher, and Mary Elizabeth Sanders.

Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of
LOUISA BERWICK DAVID BERWICK
Born Jan. 1815- Died Jan. 13, 1965 Born Apr. 18, 1808- Died Nov. 13, 1874

Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of
LEILA and PHOEBE BERWICK EDWARD BERWICK
Born May 10, 1852 and June 26, 1855 Born the 2nd March 184_
Died Nov. 29, 1863 Died the_________(Broken)

DALLAS BERWICK IRA BERWICK
Born 11 Oct. (Broken) Born 21 June (Broken)
Died 1 Apr. 1849 Died 13 May 1849

To the Memory of My Beloved Husband JOSEPH STANWOOD BERWICK
JOSEPH J. BERWICK Born Nov. 3, 1872- Died Nov. 16, 1896
Born Sept. 15, 1838-Died Nov. 16, 1879

JOSEPH OSCAR ALLEN (2 graves with stones could not be
Born Dec. 4, 1863(?) Be approached due to undergrowth)
Died July 24, 1867

A large brick square, unmarked, contains: Sacred to the Memory of
some four graves, probably those of MARIA LOUISA ALLEN
JOSHUA GARRET, RACHEL GARRET Born at Keeserville, N.Y. Dec. 8, 1826
CATHERINE GARRET NICKELSON Died Dec. 14, 1881
and RUFUS NICKELSON.

Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of
FRANCIS BENNETT(?) RUTH DENNETT
Born Aug. 30, 1815 Born Nov. 12, 1854
Died May 30, 1863 Died May 21, 1863

Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of
SHAKESPEARE ALLEN, M. D. LOUISA BERWICK
Born at Keeserville, N.Y. July 15, 1829 Beloved Wife of Dr. Shakespeare Allen
Died at Centerville, La. Sept. 2, 1875 Born May 24, 1836
Died June 17, 1902

Our LITTLE LEO
Born March 14, 1858
Died Dec. 17, 1862

COMMENTS: I am a decedent of Joshua GARRETT, and as such wanted to mention the mis-spelling of the family name. Joshua GARRETT, with two Ts came to S. Louisiana in the 1770s and settled on Bayou Nezpique in the County of Opelousas, in what is now Evangeline Parish. Later he moved his family to the County of Attakapas, in what is now St. Mary Parish. Under the governance of the Spanish his name was misspelled in many ways, which was not unusual. In the marriage records of St. Martin de Tours Roman Catholic church in St. Martinville, LA, he is listed as Josue Garrot, and in Spanish Military records, he served in a Spanish milita unit, de la Compagnie de milite des Oppeloussas(sic) and is listed as Josua Garote. During this period of transition, from France to Spain to France, then to the United States there was probably some confusion between the clerics and civil officials as to which language to use to record official events. To compound this continuing error, the name of this cemetery on the N. BEND
USGS 7.5 min. Quadrangle is listed as Gratt Cem. I have tried to have this corrected, but as yet have only met with stiff resistance from Washington bureaucrats.

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by R. Paul Adams (adams@mail.lded.state.la.us)
(c) Copyright 1997, R. Paul Adams

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American Genealogical Biographical Index:

Name:
Rachel Meloan

Birth Date:
1750

Volume:
116

Page Number:
132

Reference:
Maryland Rev. recds; pension clain\ms, bounty land applications, marriages of soldiers. By Harry Wright Newman. Washington, DC. 1938. (155p.):119

Notes:

St. Martin of Tours Church

St. Martin of Tours Church

Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Rachel Melon
Gender: Female
Birth Place: MD
Birth Year: 1750
Spouse Name: Patrick Francis Clark
Spouse Birth Place: Ir
Spouse Birth Year: 1745
Marriage State: of LA
Number Pages: 1

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Presbyterian
• Occupation: 18 Aug 1758, South Carolina; master of frigot "Pretty Peggy"
• Residence: 1762, Halifax Co, North Carolina
• Other-Begin: 25 Feb 1762, Halifax Co, North Carolina; mentioned in Everitt will
• Residence: 1772, British West Florida
• Residence: 10 Dec 1776, Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana; 500 ac land grant
• Residence: 16 Oct 1779, Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana; signed pledge
• Residence: 1785, Bayou Chicot, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana
• Residence: 1785, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
• Residence: 1790, Plaquemine Brulee, Acadia Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1792, Natchez District, Mississippi
• Possessions: 1794, Acadia Parish, Louisiana; sold land
• Residence: 1794, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
• Death: Abt 1795; ?

Notes:

By Henry Chandlee Forman, Ph.D.
The Formans of England-
For more than six hundred years, from the earliest records of the family in Lincolnshire, England, to the present day, the spelling of the name Forman has been unchanged. In 1316 land in Lincolnshire was granted to one Ralph Forman; in 1373 Thomas Forman, and 1375 Robertus Forman, a juror, were inhabitants of this county. In the Lincolnshire Rebellion of 1536 Robert Forman gave five marks to the rebels.[Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, vol. 11, p. 249; vol. 18, p. 58; Linc. Rec. Soc. vol. 30, pp. 77, 87, 227]. All through the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries there were Formans living in England, chiefly in Lincolnshire, according to the records.
The most distinguished member of the family seems to have been Sir William Forman, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, a native of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He was the son of William Forman, a yeoman of Gainsborough. His sister, Elizabeth Forman, married Morice Morgan.
Sir William Forman was Knighted on October 18, 1537, and was an Alderman in Parliament form Cripplegate Ward in the City of London from 1529 to 1545. He was High Sheriff of London in 1533 and Lord Mayor from 1538 to 1539. During a Muster of Citizens in 1539 he rode in a procession and carried a coat of black velvet embroidered with a cross; on his head was a black velvet cap with a rich jewel; and about him rode four footmen apparelled in satin hose and fine white silk.
By trade Sir William Forman was a haberdasher. In 1544 he, with others, leased from King Henry VIII the Manor of Tullesworth in Surrey. In the same year, on August 30, he married Blanche Palmer, a widow, of London. He died on January 13, 1547, and was buried in the Church of Saint George, Botolph Lane, in East Cheapside, London. A monument was erected there to his memory.
His great grandson, Robert Forman went to Amersterdam and received the Charter for Flushing, New Amersterdam, which is now Queens, New York. The Forman family flurished and soon spread to New Jersey, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, and Kentucky. They followed the migration patterns to North and South Carolina and on down to Louisiana and Mississippi Territories.
In the Natchez area, they formed the Forman Colony, and brought the first four-wheeled cart to the Mississippi Territory.
The Spanish Census of 1790 shows George "Jorge" Forman and family next to William "Guillermo" Irwin. They were settled on the Sara Bayou and Coles Creek area.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/r/Stephen-D-Forman/index.html
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Forman, Edouard m Rebecca Raveo (Opel Ch)
Forman, Edouard m Marie Bournet (Opel Ch)

Presbyterian.
1762, Halifax County, NC (will of William Everit)

1776: granted 500 acres of land on 10 December 1776 on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. It is believed Edward Forman entered the Province of British West Florida in 1772.

1785, Bayou Chicot, LA, granted land (Evangeline Par)
1785, Living with wife in Bayou Chicot
1794, sold land to Victor Richard
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In about 1758 Edward Forman was supposed to be master of the ship "Pretty Peggy." This is in the South Carolina Gazette dated Aug 18, 1758.

From: winston@asbank.com (winston)
Source: Anglo-Americans in Spanish Archives, "List of Anglo-American Settlers in The Spanish colonies of America, A Finding Aid".
By: Lawrence H. Feldman, 1991, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,
10001 N. Calvert, Baltimore, Md., pp. 85,108 20

Census of Louisiana District
Item No. 347 - Forman, Ed. at Opelousas in 1785
Item No. 350 - Fourman, Edouard at Opelousas in 1794.

Census, Mississippi, Natchez District
Item No. 261 - Forman, Ezekiel, 1792, Santa Catalina area.
Item No. 262 - Forman, Ismay, 1792, Villa Gayoso area.
Item No. 263 - Forman, Jorge, 1792, Villa Gayoso area.
(my note: I have no idea where Santa Catalina and Villa Gayoso are)

Source: Acadia Parish History to 1900, by: Mary Alice Fontenot,
Chapter II, Colonial landowners, pg. 42, 51.

Item: Victor Richard bought his land from Edward Foreman in 1794. Thomas Hoffpauir age 76 testified in the land claim in 1812. Hoffpauir said the land had been occupied by Foreman "more than 30 years ago, for several years;" that after the sale to Richard, "Primo occupied same on Richard's account for 2 or 3 years., after which Foreman was employed to tend Richard's cattle, where he resided and cultivated for 5 successive years."
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http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/r/Stephen-D-Forman/GENE8-0001.html

1. EDWARD1 FORMAN was born Abt. 1720 in Va., and died 1805 in St. Landry Parish, La.. He married MARIE BURNET Bet. 1750 - 1752 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.

Notes for EDWARD FORMAN:
On Oct. 16, 1779 after raids by so-called patriot, John Willing, into the British West Florida settlements of Natchez, Baton Rouge and Manchac, Edward Forman and 18 others signed oaths of allegiance to the "United Independent States of North America" in the presence of Capt. Pickles who had captured the British armed vessel on Lake Ponchartrain.
"We whose names or marks are here unto set and subscribed, being settlers and inhabitants on Lake Ponchartrain between the Bayou La Combe and the River Tanchipaho, do herby acknowlege ourselves to be natives as well as true and faithful subjects to the United Independent States of North America.
An whereas on the tenth day of last month, William Pickles, captain of the navy of the said States, did arrive in this lake and made prize of the English armed sloop, West Florida, wh had kept possession of the lake for near two years before, and the said William Pickles, Esquire, did on the twenty first of the same month, land some of his people, and take possession of this settlement and gave us all the protection against indians and others that his force would admit of, and suffered us to remain on our possessions till further orders; we, therefore, consider ourselves belonging to the said States, and are willing to remain here and enjoy our property and priviledges under them, the said United States. October 16, 1779."
"Gerard Brandon, Alex McCollough, James Mosely, Mary Smith, Samuel Smith, James Farro, Abel Goffegon, Edward Foreman, Wm. Dakimore, Jacob Ambrose, Frederic Spell, Benj. Curtis, Wm. Fisher, Paul Pigg, Daniel Tuttle, Matt McCollough, Francis Fisher, John Spell, Wm. Steel" --Source, Mississippi as a Providence, Territory, and State, Claiborne, 1880.

More About EDWARD FORMAN:
Fact 1: August 18, 1758, Noted in South Carolina Gasette as "master of the Brig "Pretty Peggy"
Fact 2: 1762, Edward is noted in Halifax County, NC Will of Wm. Everitt
Fact 3: 1772, Edward entered British West Florida with McCollugh Spell
Fact 4: 1776, Edward Forman granted 500 acres on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain
Fact 5: October 16, 1779, Signed Oath of Allegiance to the "United Independent States of North America"

1785-Chart prepared by Winston DeVille, at June 1963 meeting of Louisiana Genealogical Society in St. Landry Parish Court Room in Opelousas, Louisiana. Now in Jim Bowie Museum, Opelousas, La. "UNder Commandant De Cloucet 30 July 1785
Thomas Huffpower
George Forman
Ismael Forman"
Source-The Hoffpauirs of Louisiana... Rosemary Wright Hoffpauir.
1790-Edward Forman (Sr) then went to Plaqumine Brulee in Spanish La. (now Acadia Parish, La.). His sons: George & Ismael went to Jefferson County, Mississippi Census, with George F. returning to La. for the 1810 census, then back to Jefferson.
Source: Ed Roberts, Monroe, La.



Children of EDWARD FORMAN and MARIE BURNET are:
i. MARGARET2 FORMAN, b. 1748.
2. ii. EDWARD FORMAN II, b. Abt. 1749, Va.; d. 1818, St. Landry Parish, La..
3. iii. ISMAEL FORMAN, b. Abt. 1752, Va.; d. 1832, Louisiana.
4. iv. MARY FORMAN, b. 1762, North Carolina.; d. 1812, St. Landry Parish, La..
5. v. GEORGE FORMAN, b. May 01, 1764, Virginia; d. February 25, 1823, Jefferson County, Mississippi.
6. vi. EPHRAIM (EPHREM) JOSEPH FORMAN, b. 1766, Va.; d. 1835, Jefferson County, Mississippi.
7. vii. SARA ELIZABETH FORMAN, b. 1768.
viii. CATHERINE FORMAN, b. Abt. 1769; m. THOMAS LAUGHLIN JR., June 11, 1793, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.
8. ix. JANE FORMAN, b. Abt. 1773, Va.; d. Abt. 1850.
9. x. JAMES FORMAN, b. 1779, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; d. 1833, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.







Occupation:
August 18 1758, Noted in South Caroline Gazette as 'master of the Brig Pretty Peggy'(From further research- which was found on a Google search and one for the "Clark Family"(clark@ems.psu.edu), I found this Edward Foreman, born 1717 at Margate Kent, England. Died on Ship "Pretty Peggy 1759 at the age of 42. - Another entry, his father: John Foreman b. 1616 Margate Kent, England; d. January 1760(84 yrs) buried 25 January 1760). Perhaps this is the same John Foreman who brought prisoners, bonded people, etc from Ipswich England to the Colonies-as noted in many entries of the Ship Henry & Francis-Including Scots who had been convicted mainly because of their religious beliefs.)
In 1685 there is a posting of the Ship Henry and Francis of NewCastle bringing in Passengers to Perth Amboy, NJ mid December 1685-Included on the list is a John Foreman who was banished.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bthornton3026&id=I1625

Residence:
1762, Edward is noted in Halifax County, NC Will of Wm. Everitt

Other-Begin:
abstract of William Everit/Everitt's will:

Will# 54 pg.74 WILLIAM EVERIT/EVERITT 25 Feb.1762 June Ct.1762
3 brothers JAMES EVERITT, JOHN EVERITT, and SAMUEL EVERITT all my land and money to be divided equally between them PEGGY FOREMAN daughter of EDWARD FOREMAN cow, calf, etc. Rest of movable estate to be equally divided between my brothers and sisters (names not given)
Wit.: MATTHEW BURNET x his mark, FLORENINIA CARTY, JOHN HEADY
Extrs.: my 3 brothers JAMES, JOHN, and SAMUEL EVERIT

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.halifax/1221.1/mb.ashx

Residence:
1772, Edward entered British West Florida with McCollugh Spell

Residence:
1776, Edward Forman granted 500 acres on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain

Residence:
While Gálvez was at work reducing the works at Baton Rouge, Captain Pickles sailed to Bayou La Combe and the Tauchipaho River on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, claiming the area for the United States and demanding an oath of allegiance from its citizens.
http://www.usskidd.com/battles-revolution.html

On Oct. 16, 1779 after raids by so-called patriot, John Willing, into the British West Florida settlements of Natchez, Baton Rouge and Manchac, Edward Forman and 18 others signed oaths of allegiance to the "United Independent States of North America" in the presence of Capt. Pickles who had captured the British armed vessel on Lake Ponchartrain.
"We whose names or marks are here unto set and subscribed, being settlers and inhabitants on Lake Ponchartrain between the Bayou La Combe and the River Tanchipaho, do herby acknowlege ourselves to be natives as well as true and faithful subjects to the United Independent States of North America.
An whereas on the tenth day of last month, William Pickles, captain of the navy of the said States, did arrive in this lake and made prize of the English armed sloop, West Florida, wh had kept possession of the lake for near two years before, and the said William Pickles, Esquire, did on the twenty first of the same month, land some of his people, and take possession of this settlement and gave us all the protection against indians and others that his force would admit of, and suffered us to remain on our possessions till further orders; we, therefore, consider ourselves belonging to the said States, and are willing to remain here and enjoy our property and priviledges under them, the said United States.October 16, 1779."
"Gerard Brandon, Alex McCollough, James Mosely, Mary Smith, Samuel Smith, James Farro, Abel Goffegon, Edward Foreman, Wm. Dakimore, Jacob Ambrose, Frederic Spell, Benj. Curtis, Wm. Fisher, Paul Pigg, Daniel Tuttle, Matt McCollough, Francis Fisher, John Spell, Wm. Steel" --Source, Mississippi as a Providence, Territory, and State, Claiborne, 1880.

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/o/r/Stephen-D-Forman/GENE8-0001.html

Residence:
1790-Edward Forman (Sr) then went to Plaqumine Brulee in Spanish La. (now Acadia Parish, La.). His sons: George & Ismael went to Jefferson County, Mississippi Census, with George F. returning to La. for the 1810 census, then back to Jefferson.
Source: Ed Roberts, Monroe, La

Died:
some records say 1795 Bayou Chicot

Stephen D. Forman, researcher, has 1805 St. Landry Parish and from other records, seems more logical.

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/o/r/Stephen-D-Forman/GENE8-0001.html

Edward* married Marie* Burnett (or Barrett or Bouret or Bonet or Bournet or Brunet) before 1761. Marie* (daughter of Matthew* (Matthis/Matthus) Burnett, Sr. and Mrs. Sarah* (..) Burnett (Everitt?), (prob related?)) was born about 1740 in of, North Carolina and of, Opelousas; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: 12 Dec 2010
• Research Notes: 11 Aug 2013

Notes:

from Anita Richmond (arichmond@worldnet.att.net)
has copy of Thomas Laughlin & Catharine Foreman's marriage certificate from St.Landry Catholic Church; shows "Bosnell" "which I believe to be Bosnell."

Foreman, Catherine - Calvinist (Edward & Marie Bosnell (Bushnel) m 11 Jun 1793 Thomas Laughlin - a Calvinist, of Virginia (Thomas & Esther Forman) Wits: Andre Mondon, Peter McNeal, William Hayse, Jr. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel Ch: v 1-A, p 44)

Forman, Catherine (Edward & Marie Bosnell) m 11 Jun 1793 Thomas Laughelin (Opel. Ch. v. 1, p 44)

records of children marriages show "Burnett"

Elizabeth:
Johnston, Isaac (Joseph & Rachel Johnston) m 17 Jun 1790 Sara Elisabeth Forman (Edward & Marie Burnet) Wits: William Hayes. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel. Ch.: v 1-A, p 30)

Forman, Mary (min. daughter of Edouard & Mary Bouret of North Carolina, of Opelousas) m 3 Jun 1784 William Hayes (min. son of William & Sara Bosman - of Opelousas, of Virginia, of new England) Wits: William Hays, Jacob Will, Joseph Andrus, Bosman Hayes. Fr. Geffrotin (SM Ch: v2 #172)

Forman, Jenny (Edward & Marie Bonet) m 3 Feb 1788 Bosman Hayes (William & Celeste Hayes) Wits: La Morandiere, Gradenigo, Charles Piercy, Martin Duralde, Nicholas Forstall. Fr. Joseph Arazena (Opel Ch. Vol 1-A, p 14)

Foreman, James of this parish (Edward & Marie Barrett) m 5 Feb 1805 Susan Cole of Natchez (James & Maime Cotter) Wits: David Harmon, Joseph Andrus, John Andrus, John Close.
Fr. Louis Buhot (Opel Ch v 1-B - Protestant Marriages 1787-1830 p 12)

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from Martha Edwards (maeinva2@msn.com)
date: February 1, 2013
re: Bosman Hayes
Here is the first set of documents on Foreman that I have. They were used as proof in a DAR application, so they are solid. Marie Bonet's name is spelled Burnett, but the earliest documents we saw all had it spelled Bonet. They were Galvez papers and there were a lot of Bonets listed including her father. I don't seem to have copied any of that - actually, I don't think they would let us copy it with a copier, and we were short on time for having them copy it however they would copy it. I think it was a matter of several days to have them do it and we were going home before they could get it done now that I think about it. It sounded to us like the Bonets had been in LA for a very long time, too. I may see if I can get it copied and mailed to me next time I go up. I hope to go this spring at some point. I haven't been up since Thanksgiving.
Martha

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an Ezekiel Forman entered Natchez in 1790, along with a Eusebio Bushnell in his party. Also in that party was Jacobo Huffman - most probably father of David Huffman who married Clark - whose mother was Robert. Robert's sister Nancy Robert m Green who was also from Natchez. Perry is another one whose family intermarried into this line, and arrived in Natchez at this time


AMERICANS ARRIVING in SPANISH-HELD NATCHEZ 1788-1790

*These reports were written by a Spanish officer, Carlos de Grand Pre to Governor Estevan Miro; therefore many of the names are in SPANISH or a PHONETIC attempt to convert the name to Spanish. Some are in English. The term "settler" means those with intent to settle the district. In 1788, a royal order encouraged American immigration and trade, and colonist began arriving in larger numbers than ever before. Few of these arrived via the land route, however; most arrived on flatboats, coming down the Mississippi. The majority came from Kentucky. Many settled in what would become Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson and Wilkinson counties. List taken from records in the MS Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson MS.

JUNE 22, 1790
Arriving by 6 flatboats from the UNITED STATES

First flatboat, the NANCY, from OHIO
FORMAN, SAMUEL, owner and settler
FORMAN, EZEK, resident of Natchez District
(note: he arrived earlier, that year - in April -- list with him below)

Other flatboats all from KENTUCKY

Second boat, owner and one passenger returning
Settlers:
MITCHEL, WILLIAM
GOLL, JACOBO
MCKEY, JUAN

Third boat
WINTERS, ELISHA, owner and settler

Fourth boat, owner returning
Settlers:
BUSHNELL, EUSEBIO -- <<<<<
GUILLION, JOHN
Fifth and sixth boats,
consigned to OLIVER POLLOCK
SHIPMAN, STEPHEN , to settle

JUNE 28, 1790
Arriving by flatboat from KENTUCKY
Settlers:
BEARE, WALTER
TERRY, JAMES with wife and 5 children
HUFFMAN, JACOBO with wife and three children
I have a few Huffmans -- Robert 1797 from MS, married Suzanne Clark
dau of John Clark and Sarah Robert, sister to my Nancy Robert who was m1 to Green!!! Bet this Robert is son of Jacob!!!
Also Huffman, Anna, married Duncks (Dunks) 1838 another name that shows up in this line)

Another Huffman I have is Margaret Huffman, b 1766 Rowan Co, NC; m Isaac Van Hooser. Isaac Van Hooser is bro to Johannes Van Hooser. This line went to TN, and were direct ancestors to my ex's mother's paternal line. lol

LIST ARRIVING 20 APR 1790 - FROM PENNSYLVANIA:
FLATBOATS ARRIVING IN NATCHEZ -
OWNER, EMPLOYEES, AND/OR SETTLERS
ACCORDING TO LETTERS FROM CARLOS
DE GRAND PRE TO GOVERNOR MIRO

APRIL 22, 1790
Arriving from PENNSYLVANIA ,
brought by EZEKIEL FORMAN all to settle:
FORMAN, EZEKIEL
with wife, son, and three daughters
Passengers:
OMUND, EBENEZER
CHACACH, ELIZABETH
Employees:
HARLTOCK, CHRISTIAN
ROBENS, GEORGE
OCONOR, GUILLERMO

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msfrank2/americansinspanishnatchez.htm

_
From a family history authored by George Eleazer Bushnell of Nashville in 1945 and now available online (see pp. 227-28), we learn a little about the adventurous E. Bushnell who sent the missive back east:

*432. Eusebius, b. Norwich, Conn. 1 Feb. 1748, bapt. 12 Feb. 1749, d. in Florida about 1812, m. 13 Sept. 1772, Borodel Latimer, b. New London, Conn. 12 Apr. 1755, d. before 1792, dau. of Jonathan and Lucretia (Griswold) Latimer, m. 2nd, Opelousis, La. 23 Apr. 1792, Margerit (or Margaret) McCarty, dau. of Juan and Margaret (Maklein) Makarti, and widow of Baron Patricio (R-109).
Eusebius Bushnell, probably m. at Lyme, Conn. where his first two children were bapt. served as Capt. in Rev. War in Lt. Col. Experience Storr's Regt. at New York in Fall of 1776, June 1777 appeared before the Norwich Court as Capt. Eusebius Bushnell of Lyme, Conn. and accepted office of Exec. of the est. of his brother Ezra, who had dec'd. He probably removed to Norwich as here his son Ezra was bapt. in the Christ Episcopal Church in 1778 and on 30 Sept. 1782, he brought his children Lucretia and Matthew to be bapt. in the church at Great Barrington, Mass. In 1786 he was in Nashville, Tenn. (then North Carolina), where he was a witness in a case, and signed some papers, and on 29 Dec. 1785 he was appointed as one of three Commissioners to examine into claims of soldiers and sailors residing in the district, and in 1787 the grand jury of Davidson County, presented to the court at Nashville, James Hickman, Thomas Bradford, and Joseph Brooks for disorderly conduct in throwing down Capt. Eusebius Bushnell and breaking open Squire Nichol's door (R-110), between 15 Dec. 1786 and 20 Jan. 1789, he bought and traded land grants under the firm name of Dobbins and Bushnell (R-111), and of 28 Aug. 1789, he bought three negro slaves, perhaps to act as porters on his trek over the Natches Trace to New Orleans, La. He acquired lands in Florida under a Spanish land Grant, afterwards confirmed by the U.S. Government as shown in Reports of Land Grants, Claims in Florida, 'Wusebius Bushnell vs. United States, memorial dated 13 Mar. 1799 for 600 acres, also decree of Gov. White for same dated 1799." "It appears in evidence that the claimant was in possession of the land in the year 1803, that his son was killed in 1800 or 1801, and that the claimant died in the year 1812. The board ordered the claim of 600 acres be confirmed to the unknown heirs, and their heirs, as far as the U.S. have interest in the same."

http://oldnewstom.wordpress.com/nashville-news-1780-1789/

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Wednesday, April 4, 1798 court
Letter of Attorney from Eusebius Bushnell to his son Ezra Bushnell was exhibited in Court, with letter of attorney was proven by one of the subscribing witnesses thereto before the notary public for the city of Charleston in the State of South Carolina as appears by the certificate and seal of the said notary public and is thereupon admitted to _ & ordered to be recorded.
source: 1798 Court of Pleas & Quarter Session Records
Sumner County, TN
From the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session Records 1796-1798

Contributed by Linda Carpenter
Compiled by Leslie Garinger and Diane Payne
©1998

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/plea1798.htm


Research Notes:
12 Dec 2010
SWLR-1750-1800, p. 324 by Hebert
Text: FORMAN, Catherine - Calvinist (Edward & Marie Bosnell-Bushnel), m. 11 June 1793 Thomas Laughlin - a Calvinist, of Virginia(Thomas & Esther Forman) Wits: Andre Mondon, Peter McNeal, William Hayse, Jr. Fr. Pedro de Zamora(OpelCh.: v1-A,p.44)

Looking at who Wm Hayes Jr, who witnessed this in relation - his son Wm III
is Marie Forman. So, it makes sense that Catherine is his dau-in-law's sister and
he witnessed the marriage. He also witnessed the marriages of Mary, Jenny and Elizabeth Forman.

Mary m 1784 (to his son James Hayes)
Jenny m 1788
Eliz m 1790
Catherine m 1793

The records say Catherine is dau of Bosnell - not Burnett.
Looking at the two names B o s n e l l
I am coming to the theory that she is indeed Burnett -- and possibly Burnett is not the correct name. But the writing could easily be B -- then the O not fully closed - -making it look like a U -- the R could easily be mistaken for an S in script if it again was left open. -- Ns match -- Es match -- then the LL or TT -- if TT's not crossed or the line too far above the lines -- could easily be interpreted as LL.

I'd like to know if there are any other references to Bosnell -- I don't know of any. I do know there were a couple of other spelling variations of Burnett i.e., Bournet - Burnet, etc.

I feel good enough about this to make those notations and move Catherine back to Sr. and go with the theory that Bosnell is indeed Burnett - or vice versa. Possibly the name Burnett should have been Bosnell all along, but I think they're one and the same married to Edw Sr. The challenge is to figure out the proper name. If they are the same -- then she's my direct ancestor; so that's a little more motivation to solve this question.


21 Nov 2010
marriage
?After studying out Edward Sr and the children, and their children, with dates we know and estimating from that the ones we don't, I believe that Marie Bosnell, mother of Catherine, is the wife of Edw Jr. Catherine's b.d. is more applicable to Jr. than to Sr. Marie Burnett had a child after Catherine's birth, so another reason to suspect the Hebert Records meant Edward Jr. and Marie Bosnell.

Gut feeling and logic is telling me that Catherine is child of Edw Jr. and Edw Jr. was m1 to Boswell and m2 to Perry. This negates nothing solid that we have - we only have except speculation anyway. We've all assumed that the Edw who married Rascoe and Burnett is the same as the Edw of Edw & Bosnell, but there is nothing that backs up that speculation. Hebert did document an Edw was m to Burnett & Ravcoe but he did not document a marriage of Edw & Boswell except in the m record of Catherine. I think that's the only mention of her -- is it?

Of Edw Jr's children,
If Julia (1789) and Nathan (1793) are not Nancy Perry's and IF Jr. m Bosnell c 1775 in order to have Catherine in 1776,
then we've got a chronology of Edw Jr:
b 1749 VA
m Boswell c 1775 (age 26) (father is in either FL or Lake Ponch here)
Catherine b 1776 (age 27)
large gap here -- maybe even another wife inserted here??? this time period incl father Edw Sr migrations from 1779 Lake Ponch, 1785 Bayou Chicot, & move to Opel 1785 to Opel -- so, assuming Jr. stayed w/ Sr.
Julia b 1789 (age 40)
Nathan b 1793 (age 44)
Rachel m 1797 (age 48)
married Nancy Perry 1798 (age 49)
Isaac b 1799 (age 50)




Research Notes:
Re: the Will of Wm.Everitt, 1762
harrymartin74 (View posts) Posted: 22 Aug 2005 7:01AM
Classification: Query Edited: 24 Aug 2005 1:11PM
Surnames: EVERITT, FOREMAN, BURNET, CARTY,HEADY, BURNETT, HYMAN

I have an abstract of William Everit/Everitt's will:

Will# 54 pg.74 WILLIAM EVERIT/EVERITT 25 Feb.1762 June Ct.1762
3 brothers JAMES EVERITT, JOHN EVERITT, and SAMUEL EVERITT all my land and money to be divided equally between them PEGGY FOREMAN daughter of EDWARD FOREMAN cow, calf, etc. Rest of movable estate to be equally divided between my brothers and sisters (names not given)
Wit.: MATTHEW BURNET x his mark, FLORENINIA CARTY, JOHN HEADY
Extrs.: my 3 brothers JAMES, JOHN, and SAMUEL EVERIT

I am interested in knowing more about the MATTHEW BURNET/Burnett, mentioned in this will abstract.
Was he the father of Elizabeth Burnett (b- abt 1765- d-1822)

Elizabeth married John Dunston Hyman Jr. (see below) about 1788 in the Martin County area of NC
Susan

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.halifax/1221.1/mb.ashx

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full will:
Halifax County, NC Will of Wm. Everitt-This is correct-Feb 1762.No.54,p.74:William Everitt's Will: In the Name of God Amen, I, William Everit in the Province of North Carolina and of Halifax County being very sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory,Thanks unto God for the same and remembering the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all ment ___die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say, first and principally, I recommend my soul in the Hands of God who gate it and my body I commit to the earth to be buried in a decent manner according to the discretion of my Executors, and as for what Worldly Goods, God has been pleased to endue me with I give and dispose of in manner and form following. Item, I give unto my three brothers, James Everit and John Everit and Samuel Sumer? Everit all my Land and Money debts, to be equally divided between the three and their Heirs forever. Item, I give unto PEGGY FOREMAN(Margaret), Daughter of EDWARD FOREMAN, one cow and calf and one yearling heiffer to her and Heirs. Item, I give and bequeath the rest of all my movaables to be equally divided between all my brothers and sisters to them and their Heirs forever. I likewise appoint my three Brothers James Everit and John Everit and Samuel Sumer Everit, Excutors and Dividers of this my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of February 1762.
WILLIAM EVERITT(Mark)
Sealed, Pronounced and Declared to be his last Will and Testament in Presence of us; MATTHEW BURNET(his mark); Floreninia Carty, John Heady.

Halifax--June Court 1762

This will was exhibited in open court on date by the Exors and duly pvo'd by the Oaths of Floreninia Carty and John Haddy , two of the subscribing Winesses thereto who on their oaths did say they saw Matthew Burnett sign thi sd. Will as a Witness; Wherupon James Everit and John Everit, two of the Exors in the Sd. Will named___?duly qualified by taking the Oathy by Law directed; Order'd the said Will be Recorded.
Test: John Montfort.
Fact 3: 1772, Edward entered British West Florida with McCollough, Spell
Fact 4: 1776, Edward Forman granted 500 acres on the North Shore of Lake Ponchartrain
Fact 5: October 16, 1779, Signed Oath of Allegiance to the United Independent States of North America."


http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bthornton3026&id=I1625

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Note wit: Matthew Burnet.
dau Eliz b c1765 - so Matthew b c 1740 - age to be Marie's brother.
looks like Peggy is prob oldest and only child of Edward Forman & Marie Burnet at the time.

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Name: William Everett 
Given Name: William 
Surname: Everett 
Sex: M 
Birth: Abt 1690 in Nansemond County, Virginia, Formed 1643 (Now City Of Suffolk) 
Death: in Martin County, North Carolina Formed 1774 From Halifax And Tyrrell Counties
 
The 1704 Virginia Quit Rent Roll listed Simon Everett in Isle of Wight County and William Everett in Nansemond County. When Bob Everett's ancestor Simon Everett bought land in NC, he said he was "of Nansemond County, Virginia." The William Everett family who moved from Nansemond to Martin County in the 1730's had strong Turner connections. Wills and deeds prove that William Everett married Sarah Speir, daughter of physician James Speir (see below) of Nansemond Co, VA. Sarah and William Everett named a son James, probably after Sarah's father. They also named a son Samuel Turner Everett. Sarah and William Everett's daughter Sarah married John Pollard. Sarah and John Pollard named one son Everett Pollard and one son Turner Pollard. I would guess that either William Everett's mother was a Turner or that Sarah Speir's mother was a Turner.

The 1704 quit rent roll for Isle of Wight County, Virginia listed Henry Turner. No Turners appeared in the Nansemond list.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jmljr&id=I138032

Spouse: Sarah Speir abt 1700 Nansemond Co VA
children:
James Everett b: Abt 1718
2. Samuel Turner Everett b: Abt 1719
3. Sarah Everett b: Abt 1720 in Nansemond County, Virginia,
m John Pollard, children: Everett Pollard, Turner Pollard
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jmljr&id=I138037

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James Speir:
Bertie County; Dec 12, 1731; Feb court 1731
Son: James (plantation on Ahoskie). Wife and Executrix: Ann ("my manner plantation" and two negroes). Daughters: Morning Speir, Sarah Everitt. daughter-in-laws: Sarah and Patience Stalling.
witnesses: Robert Greaves, Culmer Seasoms, Jno Sutton.
clerk of the court: Rt. Forster.
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Mohoon, Josiah (note names Burnet and Hyman
Jan 1 1772; Feb 2 1774:
sons Josiah and James (one plantation to each), John, Jesse.
daughters: Ann and Edee Mohoon.
testator bequeaths "remainder part of my estate.... to give all my children equally...."
executors: Needham Bryant, Elias Bryant, Thomas Hyman.
witnesses: John Bryant, James Burnet, William Bland
proven before Jo.
-- Martin.

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Note - Everitts were from Nansemond Co VA. So were Ballards.

........ 4 Elisha Ballard Born: Abt. 1744 Martin/Tyrrell, NC Died: 08 Dec
1835 Martin, Old Tyrrell Co, NC
............ +Mary Everitt Born: Abt. 1770 Died: Martin Co, NC
........ *2nd Wife of Elisha Ballard:
............ +Elizabeth (Burnett, sister of Marie Burnett Forman) Died: 14 Nov 1823 Martin Co, NC

Other Events and Attributes:

• Possessions: Abt 1790, Coles Creek, Natchez, Mississippi

Notes:

1810 Opelousas Census
132 COLE, James ?-1765 1762 NC
female 1766-84 Jemima CURTIS 1764? SC
male 1785-94 Richard 1795 MS
male 1795-1800 James Rentfroe 1797 MS
male 1795-1800 Jacob Stampley 1799 MS
male 1801-10 Stephen 1802 MS
male 1801-10 Jonathan 1805 LA
male 1801-10 William 1808 LA

Fought in the Battle of San Jacinto.

Possessions:
Natchez Records 1767-1805 by May Wilson McBee
Page 357 (no preview available)
William Ferguson to Thos Marston Green, 348 acres on Cole's Creek, b. by lands of John Smith, James Cole, Ben Stanley, and Benj. Roberts, for $350. ...no preview available for this page

page 80
1790. William Ferguson to Thomas Marston Green, 348 arpents b. by John Smith, James Cole, Benj. Stampley, Benj. Roberts, for $350 paid. Wit: Eben Rees. ...no preview available for this page

James married Jemimah Curtis in 1785 in Coles Creek Settlement, Natchez, Mississippi. Jemimah (daughter of Richard Curtis, Sr. and Phoebe Courtney) was born in 1764 in Craven Co, South Carolina; died in 1837 in Orange Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]