Washington County, MS Legal Notices

Washington County, MS Legal Notices

STEVENS
State of Mississippi
Washington County
I, Samuel T. Stevens, Glen Allen, Mississippi, upon information and belief, make the following statement, to wit-
My great grandfather, John B Stevens, married an Indian woman. The son of this marriage, Eli Stevens, my grand father, there by, being one- half indian, married a one- half indian woman, Susan Richards, eleven children were born of this union, among them being John Oscar Stevens, my father, a one-half indian who in turn married a Dutch woman, making me one fourth Indian.
The above information has come to me by virtue of talking to my father and grand-father, during their lives.
Signed Samuel T Stevens
State of Mississippi
Washington County

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority, in and for the jurisdiction above mentioned, Samuel T Stevens, who after being duly sworn, on information and belief, made the above statement.

Signed V E Stewart Justice of the Peace
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of January 1953.

[Submitted by, Janice Stevens Rice, who adds the following note: The other ten children above mentioned were Francis Marion, Olivia J, William Wallace, George Bruce, Eli T, Elizabeth, Alice G, Robert Quitman, Emma G, Andrew McCullen]

Early Settlers of Mississippi as Taken from "Land Claims in the Mississippi Territory"
Certificate Entered: 08 Aug 1805
Certificate: 14
Certificate Date: 07 Aug 1805
Recorded: Vol. 1 Page 9
Claim Name: James Denley
Orig Name: Solomon Johnson
Quantity: 280
Situation: West side of Tombigbee
Derived: Spanish 10 Jun 1795

John Brewer, Esquire , and Jordan Morgan , were presented as witnesses, and, being duly sworn and interrogated, they deposed, that they knew that Solomon Johnson inhabited and cultivated the land in question before and on the 3d day of March, 1803 , and had continued to inhabit and cultivate thereon ever since; and that said Johnson ; was, on said 3d day of March , more than twenty-one years of age, and a married man.

Nicholas Perkins , representative of Daniel Johnson : case commenced in page 691.
James Denley , John Denley , and William H. Hargrave , were presented as witnesses, and, being duly sworn and interrogated by the Board, they all deposed, that they had no interest in this claim. The said James testified, that Daniel Johnson , in whose right the present claimant appears, deceased about two years before; that he would then have been (if living) upwards of seventy years of age; that he resided in this county in the year 1795 , and until the time of his death; that the land in question was, some part of it, under cultivation in the year 1795 ; but could not say that it was by Daniel Johnson . The said John testified, that he could not say, with positive certainty, as to the precise time, but knew that, about year 1795 , the land in question was cultivated by the son of Daniel Johnson , deceased; that, before the year 1795 , and in that year, and until his death, the said Daniel Johnson did reside in this county, not far from this land, and that he was an aged man at the time of his death. The said Hargrave testified, that the deed of conveyance, dated the 21st day of September, 1803 , under his signature, then before the Board, by which he conveyed all his right and interest in the land now claimed to Nicholas Perkins, Esq. , the present claimant, was his free act and deed, and was by him executed and delivered for the purposes therein mentioned. William Gilliam , surveyor, Hiram Mounger , and John Brewer, were produced as witnesses, and, being duly sworn, the said Gilliam deposed, that, on the 21st of May, 1800 , he saw Solomon Johnson execute and deliver a deed to William H. Hargrave , conveying the lands now in question; that he was called and subscribed as a witness; and that he saw Samuel Long also subscribe as a witness to the same instrument; that, upon inspection of the deed of Solomon Johnson , then exhibited in evidence before the Board, he was satisfied that it was the same original instrument to which he subscribed as a witness; that he surveyed, and made the plot then before the Board; that it was correctly made, according to the best of his knowledge and belief; that a small portion of one line could not be measured, by reason of high water, and was laid down by conjecture.
[Submitted by Janice Rice]

HOME