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Terry Mason's Family History Site55,574 names. Major lines: Allen, Beck, Borden, Buck, Burden, Carpenter, Carper, Cobb, Cook, Cornell, Cowan, Daffron, Davis, Downing, Faubion, Fauntleroy, Fenter, Fishback, Foulks, Gray, Harris, Heimbach, Henn, Holland, Holtzclaw, Jackson, Jameson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Mason, Massengill, McAnnally, Moore, Morgan, Overstreet, Price, Peck, Rice, Richardson, Rogers, Samuel, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Wade, Warren, Weeks, Webb, Wodell, Yeiser. |
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There is a James W. Seaton, company C 13th Missouri Infantry (military stone) according to Lathrop Cemetery Records.
On August 4, 1757 William Bartlett owned 60 acres of land in Dorchester County, MD. The name of the Tract was Bartlett's Meadow.
BIOGRAPHY: Very thorough documentation and well done web site by Roger Bartlett [bartlett@onr.com] at [HYPERLINK http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bartlett/jessfran.htm ]
CORRESPONDENCE: With Gail Borden, Jr. who was in charge of the land office for Stephen F. Austin's colony while Austin was in Mexico.
The original of this letter is in box 2A160, Austin Papers,
at the Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin.
Spelling and punctuation are as in the original. "Best League May 20th 1835Dear Sir,
I have been engaged for two weeks past in this section country an have just fineshed the Surveys on the River between Groces upper & lower plantations1 and has not seen much of the vacant lands yet - Mr Donoho has been with me for several days and I have surveyed One quarter league for him South of Bell and T. Stephens, West of Braces, and as near square as practicable the land is vacant and he ought to have a preference as he was the only man I found in this section willing to go to the woods and bear the heat and fatigue - a quarter west of him and East of Best I have surveyed for Jessee Suttion. I will see you in eight or ten days and will be able to say a great deal about lands in this country the Survey of the River leagues will be of much value in straiting up things and enable you to give a true map of the country - the lands marked for Mr Baker Abbot etc is not very valuable I shall not make any selection for them before I see you -Yours and etc
Jessee BartlettGail Bordon Esqr
(addressed to:) Mr Gael Borden
San FelipeRESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Information sent to T.Mason on 4Jan2005 by Steve Treanor [stevetrea@sbcglobal.net]. "One source says that he was a major on General Andrew Jackson's staff in the 1813-1814 Creek War, part of the War of 1812, and another source says that he was promoted to major in the Battle of New Orleans, in 1815 at the end of the War of 1812; he was addressed by that rank in later years,12b but the only records relating to his military service that has been found state that he enlisted on 1 Dec 1812 in Capt. William Walker's Company of Mounted Militia, East Tennessee Volunteers, served as a private, was discharged on 28 Feb 1813, and was mustered out of service on 25 Mar 1813.12c In 1824 he and his young family moved from Knox County to Illinois, first to Madison County, then to Vandalia (Fayette County), then to McDonough County. While living at Vandalia he held office in the General Land Office, and while in McDonough County he was elected county surveyor for what now is McDonough and Knox Counties.14 Migration to Texas The family moved to Texas, then part of Mexico, after about seven years in Illinois, crossing the Red River in December 1831 to enter Texas. In May 1832 they settled on the Brazos River about three miles east of present Chappell Hill in Washington County, Texas. He continued working as a surveyor. The Texas Revolution Jesse chaired a convention called at San Felipe on 14 Jul 1835 that considered the threatened invasion of the area by Mexican troops and which led to the Consultation of San Felipe that created the Provisional Government to hostile acts by Anglo settlers toward Mexican authorities. By March 1836 relations between the Mexican government and the Anglo Texans were belligerent. A convention, elected in February, met in Washington-on-the Brazos in early March and promptly, on 2 Mar 1836, broke with Mexico by declaring independence and establishing an independent Republic of Texas. Four days later, on 6 Mar 1836, Colonel Travis and all his company in San Antonio died in the Battle of the Alamo against Mexican troops under General Santa Anna. The Mexican Army then marched eastward toward Washington, causing the Runaway Scrape--the flight of the delegates, the Texas Army under General Sam Houston, and a company of civilians. Jesse joined the Texas cavalry as a private on 22 Mar 1836, furnishing his own horse and arms, and served until 10 April 1836, when he became quartermaster for the Second Regiment. During the Battle of San Jacinto on 21 Apr 1836, in which Santa Anna was captured, Jesse was part of the detail in Harrisburg, about thirteen miles away, guarding the supplies and the civilians traveling with the army. On 29 May 1836 Jesse was discharged from the Second Regiment at Camp Victoria, and he later gave receipt for $144.94 for his discharge at Columbia on 10 Oct 1836. In April of the next year he filed a claim for $200 for an eight-year-old bag horse lost in the service of the Republic on about 15 Jul 1836. Life After the Revolution; The Family's Wealth After the Texas Revolution Jesse was elected an assistant commissioner of Washington County, Texas by the Congress of the Republic of Texas in December 1837 and around that time was busy laying out the riverport town of Warren on seven hundred acres of his Brazos River plantation. He was active in the Primitive Baptist Church and publication of the church's newspaper, Signs of the Times."