When I posted this past June about Margaret Brooks (1803 – 1855), daughter of Thomas Brooks (1775 -1838) and Sarah Whitlock, and Margaret’s husband Ransom Van Winkle, I noted that Ransom had received a 50-acre land grant in Wayne County, Kentucky, on 17 May 1826. As I did research at the Family History Library, I was able to access that land grant and save a digital image of it. I’ve added that material to the posting I just linked.
As the posting I’ve just linked now states, on 17 May 1826 Ransom received a grant from the state of Kentucky for 50 acres of land in Wayne on the south fork of the Cumberland River. The grant document states that the land was granted under warrant 12168, which had been assigned to Ransom by Samuel C. Witten and his heirs. The land was surveyed 24 May 1825. Ransom and wife Margaret would sell this piece of land in September 1829 as they prepared to move to Illinois.
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 