dallcoLandPurchs1817to1853.htm

Selected Items Taken From the Book

OLD CAHABA LAND OFFICE
RECORDS &
MILITARY WARRANTS
1817 - 1853

BY
MARILYN DAVIS HAHN

OLD SOUTH PRINTING AND PUBLISHINGCOMPANY, MOBILE, ALABAMA - 1981

Selected Items Photocopied
By Jack Vardaman in Jan 2002 From

DALLAS COUNTY, ALABAMA
ANCESTRAL HOMESTEADS

BY UNNAMED PERSONS

On file at the Southern History Department,
Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama

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READ THIS EXPLANATION FIRST: Thiswebpage is a composite of data taken from two sources, named in the dualtitle boxes above. In the top two rows of the chart below, the columnsare labeled twice in all caps, first in larger, bold, burgundy, italictext to represent data from the OLD CAHABALAND OFFICE RECORDS (OCLOR), second in smaller, regular,ochre, straight text to represent data from the DALLASCOUNTY ALABAMA ANCESTRAL HOMESTEADS (DCAAH). One canthus see that the OCLOR documentprovides no information for the DESCRIPTION, SECTION, TOTAL ACRES, andDOCUMENT NUMBER columns, and the DCAAHdocument provides no information for the RESIDENCE column.

*PAGE*	*DATE*	*PURCHASER*	*RESIDENCE*			*TOWN-* *SHIP*	*RANGE*			*[John M. Gwin COMMENTS]*
PAGE	SIGN DATE	NAMES		DESCRIPTION	SECTION	TWNSHP	RANGE	TOTAL ACRES	DOC#	[John M. Gwin COMMENTS]
5	Oct 1818	William Rufus King	Sampson Co., NC			16	10			William Rufus King was the Vice-president of the United States, ifonly for a brief period. A neighbor of John and Jane Gwin,it was for him that their son, William Gwin, named his own son:RufusKing Gwin.
8	Jan 1819	James Bell	Dallas Co., Ala. Terr.			16	9			This person could be related to the Bell family of Orrville, one ofwhom--Mary Frances Elizabeth "Fanny" Bell--married John and Jane'syoungest son, Chesley, in 1850.
17	12 Jan 1819	William Given [Gwin]	Dallas Co., Ala. Terr.			15	7			William Given is, no doubt, a mistranscriptionof William Gwin, for several reasons: (1) there are no other Givens inDallas Co. at this time; (2) there are two other purchase records for WilliamGwin; and (3) it happens to me all the time. I believe this to be the olderbrotherof John Gwin for several reasons: the Jan. 1819 purchases for bothare in the same Township/Range squares; they're both about the same agesand have big families about the same ages (from the 1830Dallas Co. Census); John has a son named William who was likely namedfor his uncle, etc.
19	25 Jan 1819	James Bell	Dallas Co., Ala. Terr.			15	11			No further comment
10	Jan 1819	John Gwin	Shelby Co., Ala. Terr.			15	7			John Gwin must be my ggg-grandpa who marriedJane Walker in Blount Co., TN, on 8 Apr 1812 and whose son, Isom, was bornin AL on 17 Mar 1817. He is recorded here as living in Shelby Co.,though we've seen no other records to indicate this. However, when Isom'sgrave was discovered in July of 2004, this quote from the tombstonelends support to their living elsewhere: The deceased was a native ofthis state and was raised from an infant in this county. It is a shamethat the Section numbers were not also recorded here; nevertheless, itis possible to narrow down the purchase area using the data provided.TownshipFifteen Range Seven is a six-mile square of 36 Sections starting,to the best of my calculations, from the SE corner of Perry County's southernpanhandle exactly six miles due south to approximately the midpoint betweenthe towns of Alberta and Gastonburg in Marengo County; thence due eastsix miles to a point slightly NE of the midpoint between the towns of CobbsQuarters and Crumptonia in Dallas County; thence north to a point almostexactly four miles west of Orrville and one-half mile SW of Martin Station;thence due west to the starting point. The Jefferson Davis Highwayenters this Township 15/Range 7 six-mile square at approximately its NEcorner and exits it Approximately at its SW corner.
32	10 Apr 1819	William Gwin	Dallas Co.			14	9			No further comment
28	03 DEC 1821	JOHN GWIN		E1/2NW1/4	31	16N	8E	80.00	285	According to my calculations, this 80-acre plot of land abuts the 160-acreplot of land he purchased ten years later (see 2 lines below) and is situatedca. a mile northwest of Martin Station and just north of the CSX Railroadline; it is also east of Wesbrook and south of Eleanor; it is also ca.7 miles west-northwest of Orrville.
88	23 May 1831	John Gwin	Dallas Co.			16	9			John Gwin is here purchasing land in Cahaba.TownshipSixteen Range Nine includes the town of Cahaba, and this is wherewe know that John Gwin purchased land.
28	30 NOV 1831	JOHN GWIN		SW1/4	30	16N	8E	159.75	7807	According to my calculations, this 160-acre plot of land abuts the80-acre plot of land he purchased ten years earlier (see 2 lines above)and is situated ca. a mile northwest of Martin Station and just north ofthe CSX Railroad line; it is also east of Wesbrook and south of Eleanor;it is also ca. 7 miles west-northwest of Orrville.
47	30 NOV 1831	JOHN GWIN		E1/2NW1/4	35	16N	9E	79.88	7808	According to my calculations,
69	05 AUG 1834	JOHN GWIN		SW1/4NE1/4	14	15N	10E	40.13	12610	here can be no doubt that this John Gwin and the below John Guinn areone and the same person. According to my calculations, this 40-acreplot of land abuts the 40-acre plot of land he purchased a month later,the two forming an 80-acre plot comprising the east one-half of the northeastquarter of section 14 of township 15N-range 10E (see line immediately below). It is located ca. 6-7 miles southeast of Cahaba on the east side of andperhaps abutting the hamlet of Mt. Nebo.
69	04 SEP 1834	JOHN GUINN		NW1/4NE1/4	14	15N	10E	40.13	14833	There can be no doubt that this John Guinn and the above John Gwinare one and the same person. According to my calculations, this 40-acreplot of land abuts the 40-acre plot of land he purchased a month earlier,the two forming an 80-acre plot comprising the east one-half of the northeastquarter of section 14 of township 15N-range 10E (see line immediately above). It is located ca. 6-7 miles southeast of Cahaba on the east side of andperhaps abutting the hamlet of Mt. Nebo.
85	12 May 1831	Will. Gwin	Dallas Co.			15	10			No further comment
69	01 AUG 1831	WILLIAM GWIN		W1/2SW1/4	8	15N	10E	80.00	7507	According to my calculations,
11 97 100	Jan 1819 1 Jun 1832 5 Oct 1832	Benjamin Vanderslice Jacob Vanderslice Rinerd Vanderslice	Dallas Co., Alabama Territory Dallas Co. Dallas Co.			16 16 18	8 8 9			The Vanderslices married in with the Gwins somehow, asI recall...
38 74 88 131	9 Apr 1821 4 Jan 1830 23 May 1831 12 Jan 1836	George Hoot Aaron Hoot Mary Hoot Jacob Hoot	Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co.			16 16 16 16	8 8 9 8			John Gwin was a next-door neighbor to the Hoots in Cahaba,even buying a piece of land from Mrs. Hoot at one point. They were membersof Rev. James Cotten's Methodistcongregation as well.
74 97 126 177 192	30 Jan 1830 31 May 1832 1 Jan 1836 14 Nov 1836 28 Nov 1851	Jesse Rasco Laban Rasco Taylor L. Rasco Laban Rasco Jesse H. Rasco	Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co.			17 17 16 16 16	8 8 8 8 8			Ezekiel Budine Wilson, my ggg-granduncle, married Sarah H.Rasco, and all of these Rascos are related to her.
76	23 Aug 1830	Whitmill F. Harrell	Dallas Co.			17	9			The Harrells and the Rascos were also related.
90 102 112 189	28 May 1831 27 Nov 1832 19 Nov 1833 10 Feb 1851	Jacob Comalander Jesse Comalander Daniel Comalander Jacob Comalander	Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co.			16 16 15 16	8 9 18 9			Jesse Comalander married MarthaJ. Gwin, daughter of John and Jane Gwin
100	6 Oct 1832	Chesley R. Guinn	Wilcox Co.			20	9			Chesley R. Guinn must be another brotherof John Gwin, again for several reasons: Chesley is the maidenname of John's paternal grandmother; John's son, also named ChesleyR. Gwin, (no small coincidence if they're NOT related!) is too youngto own land, being only four years old on this purchase date; John's sonmust have been named for his uncle; etc. This land is located in what is now NE Perry Countynear the hamlets of Cleveland Mills and Theo, somewhat NE of Sprott, likelyin the Talledega National Forest.
70	26 Jan 1829	John H. High	Dallas Co.			16	7			Probably the High family in Dallas Co., neighbors of John and Janein 1830 census, whose daughters married into my Gwin/Basset lines.
74	5 Jan 1830	John H. High	Dallas Co.			16	7			Probably the High family in Dallas Co., neighbors of John and Janein 1830 census, whose daughters married into my Gwin/Basset lines.
116	6 Mar 1834	Calvin M. High	Perry Co.			31	7			Possibly related to the High family in Dallas Co. whose daughters marriedinto my Basset lines.
117	5 May 1834	Stephen Blann	Dallas Co.			16	8			Possibly related to the Blann family in Dallas Co. whose son marriedinto the abovementioned High line
120 146 172	6 Feb 1835 19 Mar 1836 19 Sep 1836	Lindsey B. Grice Jesse Grice James Grice	Dallas Co. Dallas Co. Dallas Co.,			14 15 15	12 11 11			Possibly related to the W. G. Grice family with whom John and JaneGwin were staying in the 1860 Census of Dallas County.
123	6 Nov 1835	Nathaniel B. Wilson	Dallas Co.			16	8			My ggg-grandfather, Nathaniel Burdine Wilson,owned this land in the township/range which is roughly in the Orrville/Salem/BogueChitto area and west of Cahaba.
127	4 Jan 1836	Drury H. Roark	Dallas Co.			16	8			Husband of John and Jane's second child, Mary Gwin, the only childof which marriage was Walter Roark who would die at Gettysburg.
191	8 Sep 1851	Jeremiah Lister	Dallas Co.			9	8			This is tailor "Jere" Lister, the business partner of one ofthe Basset brothers, both of whom lived "over the point" in Cahaba. Oneof the Lister daughters would marry one of the sons of Fred Cheesman whomarried Mr. Basset's sister.