Monthly Archives: June 2015

Vinton County Ohio, Probate Case Files 1850-1864, Box 33-38, G-H

Below is an incomplete (a work in process) list of case file papers filed in Vinton County, Ohio. The original records are online at FamilySearch.org https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-31337-11001-36 and there are a total of 1945 images. Most files deal with the estates of deceased persons, however, there are cases involving lunacy, minors, criminals, and more.

  • Catherine Graham Box 33 Image 1
  • Jack Grimes Box 33 Image 86
  • Ichabod Gummons Box 33 Image 117
  • Alfred B. Gray & Charles Gray Box 33 Image 192
  • Ely Gray Box 33 Image 233
  • E. H. Gabe (lunacy) Box 34 Image 330
  • Samuel N. Gadd Box 34 Image 340
  • John Gagan Box 34 Image 348
  • William D. Gale Box 34 Image 353
  • Owen Gallagher (lunacy) Box 34 Image 361
  • Peter Gallagher Box 34 Image 383
  • John Gibson and Sarah Gibson (minors) Box 34 Image 475
  • George A. Gold and William D. Gold (minors) Box 34 Image 481
  • Michael Giles Box 34 Image 493
  • John P. Glasgow Box 34 Image 497
  • Gustav Gossman Box 34 Image 520
  • George W. Grady, Earl P. Grady, William J. Grady (minors) Box 34 Image 532
  • Joseph Gregg Box 34 Image 549
  • Loton S. Green Box 34 Image 555
  • Thomas A. Green, Mary Green, Milton Green, Harriet Green (minors) Box 34 Image 360
  • Thomas A. Green Box 34 Image 621
  • William Green Box 34 Image 671
  • Smith Grubbs Box 34 Image 705
  • Catherine Gunning (lunacy) Box 34 Image 711
  • Martha A. Gunning Box 34 Image 721
  • David Gregory Box 35 Image 752

 

Isaac Gregory (1772-1852) of Augusta Co., Virginia

Land records are frequently among the more illuminating documents for determining familial relationships in genealogical research. This is especially true in early U.S. history.

For many years, there have been several researchers who have speculated upon the parentage of Isaac Gregory of early Augusta County, Virginia. He was born about 1772 and died in Aug 1852 in Braxton Co., Virginia (now West Virginia). Isaac married Sarah Given on 25 Mar 1790 1 in Augusta Co., Virginia. He was living in Nicholas Co., Virginia in 1850. 2

I discovered a land record in Bath Co., Virginia that documents the name of Isaac Gregory’s mother. An abstract of that deed is below:

On 2 Nov 1797 in Bath County, Virginia, Isaac Gregory and Sarah his wife of Bath County, Virginia sold land to Nicholas Harper of Pendleton County, Virginia. For £400, Gregory sold 142 acres to Harper, the land being part of a larger tract of 220 acres granted to Mary Gregory from William Lewis and from said Mary unto her son, Isaac Gregory, in Bath County on Back Creek joining lands of James Wright and Isaac Duffield beginning at 3 sugar trees on the W side of the creek and running thence S 55 degrees E 86 poles crossing the creek to 3 white oaks thence SW 80 poles to a maple, hickory, and white oak at the edge of the bottom thence S 5 degrees E 100 poles to 3 white oaks thence S 42 degrees W 102 poles to a Spanish oak and maple on the S side of the dry run thence corner the said run N 52 degrees W 34 poles to a large white oak and 2 dogwood saplings thence N 44 degrees W 80 poles crossing the creek to a smooth birch and sugar tree on a hill thence N 27 degrees E 245 poles to the beginning. Signed: Isaac Gregory. Wit: John Wilson, Robert McGuffin, Isaac Duffield, James McLaughlin, David McLaughlin, William Given. 3

Mary’s husband is not known at this time.

 

 

  1. Augusta Co., Virginia Marriages 1785-1813, http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/augusta/vitals/marriages/augm01.txt
  2. 1850 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), Western District, Nicholas County, Virginia, Page 340a, Dwelling 3, Family 3, Benjamin Hamrick household, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=15366515
  3.  Bath County, Virginia Deeds, 1:414, FHL Microfilm 30607.