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Subject: Re: Isaac Ramsey - Columbia County, GA
Date: 17 Feb 2006 07:50:38 -0700
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Surnames: Walton, Harper
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Hi, Ann. I don’t know who all those Harpers married. William and James. I know that William was county clerk, and you see his name lots of places in that connection…and William and James owned property in Augusta, as well. I think they all were lawyers, perhaps. Here is one of those legal notices…..lawyers sounded then just like they do today…! Don’t know what this case was about.
June 28, 1798: Georgia} Superior Court} Columbia County} June term 1798: A Bill was presented on the equity side of this court, in behalf of JAMES CARTLEDGE, praying to have the testimony of John GERMANY, sen., an aged and infirm witness, taken and perpetuated; and on motion of Mr. WALKER, solicitor for the complainant. It is ordered and decreed, that Peter CRAWFORD, Thomas MOORE, Joshua GRINAGE, and Wm. WALTON, Esqrs, or any two of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to examine the said John Germany, Esq. on such interrogatories as may be exhibited by and in behalf of the said complainant, and that his testimony when take be, and is hereby perpetuated according to the usage and practice of law and equity, the said examination to be taken at the house of JOHN RAMSEY, on the first Friday in September next, or at such time thereafter as the said commissioner may appoint. This rule to be published in one of the gazettes at least sixty days previous to such!
examination, in order that any persons interested may file cross interrogatories. Taken from the minutes, Peter Crawford, clerk.”
I know that a James Edwin HARPER, Jr. married Sarah Evalina WALTON, daughter of Hon. Anderson Watkins Walton…in the early 1870’s, in Augusta. They had 7 children. One of their daughters married a Blanchard. I believe the James Edwin Harper was from Ireland, for some reason. So perhaps brother William was?
Joseph Callaway was the father of Col. Richard Callaway that married Frances Walton. Here's some notes on Richard and his brothers: "Kegley's Virginia Frontier" page 112
1746: The CALLAWAY brothers, Francis, Richard, Thomas and William, sons of Joseph Callaway of Caroline County, were closely identified with Old Lunenburg and Bedford Counties. It is said that they came to this section in 1740 and were the first men who cleared land and raised corn on the Otter River. They appear in the land records of 1747. Francis Callaway had 224 acres on the lower side of Buffalo Crrek, Richard 244 acres near by. There followed many important surveys in both Albemarle and Lunenburg counties - John Chiswell, 2460 acres on south branch of Rockfish River; Leonard Ballew 2472 acres on south side of Fluvanna (James River); Col. John Henry, 2224 acres on the east side of Tye River; WILLIAM WALTON, 1020 acres on Walton's Fork of Slate River. (etc).
Killed by Indians in Kentucky. Richard died March 8, 1778 in killed by Shaunnes who attacked him and his work crew at the site of his ferry across the Kentucky River. His body was interred March 1778 in Booneborough, Kentucky. According to the French Tipton Paper, Colonel Callaway was buried at the Lisle Cemetery located very near Ft. Boonesborough.
He married two times. He married Frances Walton in Brunswick, Virginia, 1745. Frances was born in Brunswick, Virginia. Frances was the daughter of Robert Walton and Frances Sherwood. Frances died circa 1766 in Bedford County, Virginia. He married the widow of John Hoy, Elizabeth Jones in Bedford, Virginia, 1767. Elizabeth was born in Virginia. Elizabeth was the daughter of Gabriel Jones and (?) Strother. Elizabeth died 1813 in Winchester, Kentucky.
Just thoughts. Ginga
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