BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

As a previous posting notes (and see also here), George Bruton was a neighbor of Mark Lindsey’s father Dennis Lindsey in Spartanburg County, and unless I’m mistaken, Dennis died indebted to George Bruton. As the posting linked at the head of this posting indicates, in June 1801, George Bruton had a grant of 100 acres on the southwest side of Beaver Creek in Wayne County, Kentucky, which he assigned to Mark Lindsey, who began to be taxed for this land in 1802 and who lived on it with wife Mary Jane Dinsmore and their family until Mark and Mary Jane sold the land on 13 October 1819 and moved to Alabama to join their children who had preceded them there. Mark and Mary Jane’s oldest son Dennis (1794-1836) settled in Lawrence County, Alabama, and Mark and Mary Jane settled nearby across the county line in Morgan County.

I’m posting about Mark Lindsey’s 100-acre grant on Beaver Creek in Wayne County, Kentucky, now because I have recently obtained a complete set of records for this grant. Last week, I visited the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort and the extraordinarily helpful archivist who oversees the records of that office, Jaime Phillips, pulled all the records for this land grant and digitized them for me. I’m posting them here now as an addendum to my previous discussion, linked at the head of this posting), of Mark Lindsey’s 100-acre grant in Wayne County.

11 December 1811: Mark Lindsey had a grant from the Commonwealth of Kentucky for 100 acres in Wayne County on the southwest side of Beaver Creek (Grants Couth of Green River, Bk. 10, p. 214, no. 6150; certificate 119). The grant states that the land was granted by Wayne County court in June 1801 to George Bruton under terms of an act of the Kentucky Assembly for settling and improving vacant lands of the Commonwealth. Bruton assigned the land to Lindsey. See the image of this grant at the head of this posting.

The warrant/certificate for this land is in the papers for this land grant held by Kentucky Land Office and is recorded in Wayne County, Kentucky, Certificate Bk., 1803-1806, p. 395, no. 119. This shows George Bruton receiving a certificate for the 100 acres in Wayne County in June 1801, and states that the tract of land adjoined Bruton’s line (i.e., the line of his headright grant). George Bruton’s note dated 21 January 1805 assigning this land to Mark Lindsey is on the back of the warrant/certificate.

The documents for this grant in the Kentucky Land Office also include a receipt from the Kentucky Auditor’s Office to George Bruton dated 13 December 1810 showing him paying $17.79 for the 100 acres. Another document in the file of land papers is George Bruton’s note dated 21 January 1805 assigning this land to Mark Lindsey.

The land papers also include a survey done 24 February 1805 for Mark Lindsey, assignee of George Bruton. The survey states that the 100 acres adjoined George Bruton’s headright survey. Joshua Jones did the survey with chain carriers Jeremiah Langston, George Bruton, and Mark Lindsey.